The
application of the UBN methodology shows that 32.1 percent of the
households residing in Lebanon (35.2 percent of individuals) live below
the threshold of the Living Conditions Index. These are divided into
households having a very low degree of satisfaction (7.1 percent) and
households having a low degree of satisfaction (25 percent) or 6.8
percent and 28.4 percent of individuals, respectively. Households with
intermediate satisfaction represent the largest component, with 41.6
percent of the total (42.2 percent of individuals). The share of
households having a high degree of satisfaction represents 26.4 percent
of all households (22.6 percent of individuals); with 21.9 percent of
the households (19.3 percent of individuals) having a high degree of
satisfaction, and 4.5 percent of households (3.3 percent of individuals)
having a very high degree of satisfaction .
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| Table
9. Distribution of households and individuals according to degree of
satisfaction of needs in the four fields |
| (5-level
classification; Lebanon) |
| Field |
Very low
|
Low |
Intermediate |
High |
Very high |
Total |
| Housing |
10.1 |
15.8 |
26.5 |
30.3 |
17.3 |
100 |
| Water and sewerage Households
Individuals |
10.0 |
5.5 |
65.9 |
10.2 |
8.4 |
100 |
| Education |
16.6 |
16.2 |
31.3 |
16.8 |
19.1 |
100 |
| Income-related indicators
|
19.4 |
23.4 |
32.4 |
16.3 |
8.5 |
100 |
| Living conditions index:
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Households |
7.1 |
25.0 |
41.6 |
21.9 |
4.5 |
100 |
| Individuals |
6.8 |
28.4 |
42.2 |
19.3 |
3.3 |
100 |
*The percentage of households
(and individuals) belonging to the very low degree of satisfaction with
respect to the overall Living Conditions Index (7.1 percent and 6.8
percent, respectively) is smaller than the corresponding percentage for
any of the four fields (housing, water and sewerage, education and
income-related indicators). The explanation is that this percentage is
not calculated on the basis of the arithmetic mean of the overall
percentages in the four fields, but on the basis of the score obtained
by each household independently. This means that if a household falls in
this category in one of the four fields it does not necessarily follow
that it will fall within the same category with respect to the overall
Living Conditions Index. For example, it is possible to select four
households such that each one of them falls in this category in one of
the fields, but none fall in the same category according to the overall
Living Conditions Index. This observation is also true of the remaining
degrees of satisfaction, in particular that of very high satisfaction.
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Table
10. Distribution of households and individuals according to degree of
satisfaction of needs in the four fields
(3-level
classification; Lebanon) |
| Field |
Low |
Intermediate
|
High |
Total |
| Housing |
25.9 |
26.5 |
47.6 |
100 |
| Water and sewerage |
15.5 |
65.9 |
18.6 |
100 |
| Education |
32.8 |
31.3 |
35.9 |
100 |
| Income-related indicators |
42.8 |
32.4 |
24.8 |
100 |
| Living Conditions Index: |
|
|
|
|
| Households |
32.1 |
41.6 |
26.4 |
100 |
| Individuals |
35.2 |
42.2 |
22.6 |
100 |
In general, the
distribution of households according to the Living Conditions Index
takes the shape of a "normal" curve, as shown in Chart 1.
|
Chart
1. Distribution of resident households according to the score of the
Living Conditions Index
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Households are
distributed according to the degrees of satisfaction, with households
classified as having an intermediate degree of satisfaction constituting
a majority, and a proportionate distribution for the low (32.1 percent)
and high (26.4 percent) categories. Within this distribution, the shares
of the two categories at both ends of the classification are not far
apart with households classified as having a very low degree of
satisfaction representing 7.1 percent of all households, compared to 4.5
percent for those in the very high category. A similar spread can also
be noted for the low (25 percent) and high (21.9 percent) degrees of
satisfaction (Chart 2).
|
| Chart
2. Distribution of households according to the Living Conditions Index
(Degrees of satisfaction) |
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