Understanding material deprivation for 25 EU countries: risk and level perspectives, and distinctiveness of zeros

Journal article

Existing deprivation scales identify a majority of the population in each European Union (EU) country with zero deprivation. In this article, I hypothesize and test whether scoring zero on a material deprivation scale is a qualitatively different phenomenon to scoring at least one by applying and comparing multiple count models. I then examine how neglecting the distinctiveness of zeros, as the case in conventional models, influences our understanding of deprivation risk (deprived vs. non-dep...

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Authors: Bedük, S

• Publication status: Published
• Peer review status: Peer reviewed
• Publisher: Oxford University Press Publisher's website
• Journal: European Sociological Review Journal website
• Volume: 34
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 121–137
• Publication date: 2018-01-22
• Acceptance date: 2017-12-21
• DOI: 10.1093/esr/jcx089
• EISSN: 1468-2672)
• ISSN: 0266-7215
• Keywords: zeros vs. counts; risk of deprivation; hurdle models; level of deprivation; zero deprivation; risk vs. level of deprivation; social class gradient in deprivation; deprivation threshold; determinants of material deprivation; count data models