Housing deprivation in Poland: a panel data analysis

Abstract

The study aims to examine the prevalence of housing deprivation and its determinants in Poland. It uses recent Statistics on Income and Living Conditions (EU-SILC) panel data from 2017-2020. To identify the socioeconomic factors behind housing deprivation among Polish households, we apply the random-effects probit model approach. We find evidence that housing deprivation is negatively related to household income and level of education. On the contrary, the presence of unemployed people in the household increases the risk of housing deprivation. In addition, our results revealed that essential factors affecting the examined phenomenon are tenure status, dwelling type, place of residence of households – its degree of urbanisation and region. Our random effects probit modelling approach finds that unobserved household characteristics play an important role in explaining housing deprivation. Moreover, a decreasing trend in the occurrence of housing deprivation is observed.