Fuel poverty in Spain; self-assessed health; latent class ordered probit model.

Objective vs. Subjective Fuel Poverty and Self-Assessed Health

Policies towards fuel poverty often use relative or absolute measures. The effectiveness of the official indicators in identifying fuel poor households and assessing its impact on health is an emerging social policy issue. In this paper we analyse …

Objective vs. Subjective Fuel Poverty and Self-Assessed Health

Identification of fuel poverty and its impact on individuals is a growing social issue. Classifying households using subjective measures of fuel poverty yields different results than when objective measures are used. Moreover, there are …