Household possession of consumer durables on background of some poverty lines

Abstract

Monitoring of poverty indexes and structure of household expenditures is one of diagnostic and warning tool for social politics. Well-being or poverty of selected households' groups can be illustrated not only by mentioned categories, but also by possession of consumer durables. Thus, there is implication for poverty and possession (or lack) of some consumer durable goods. This assumption is being tested in Polish reality. In the article Polish households are grouped according to chosen classification method. Ownership of selected consumer durables was vital in obtaining clusters. Moreover, in the analysis of clusters, life quality and durable goods possession, modified poverty indexes were implemented. Obtained results were confirmed that there is the significant relationship between the social poverty and consumer durable goods. © 2010 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.