Purchasing Power of the Low Income Population from Romania During the Crisis

The analysis of the inequality in the Romanian population income (Gini coefficient dynamics, distribution of the different types of households over the deciles of income, the main structural and quantitative characteristics of the deciles of income, level of income inside the different branches of the national economy and other indicators), allows the identification of the different low income categories of households shares in the total population of the country. The purchasing power of these categories of low incomes households is assessed using the total level of income gotten by the different types of households (for example, the family with two children from urban/rural area or the family of pensioners from urban area) which is compared with the dynamics of the minimum basket of consumption value. The minimum basket of consumption used here is a methodological instrument realized by the normative method in the vision of Research Institute for Quality of Life from Bucharest.