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New @CogitatioSI @TranspPoverty #openaccess paper on Forced Car Ownership (FCO) in 🇬🇧&🇩🇪now available on @WRUniPress repository goo.gl/r9LVG8 . Follows thread... 1/7

@CogitatioSI @WRUniPress @SRILeeds @ITSLeeds @giulio_mattioli @DEMAND_CENTRE @eueduk 5-7% of households in both countries are FCO -> own a car despite being in 'material deprivation' (=absolute poverty) 2/7

@CogitatioSI @WRUniPress @SRILeeds @ITSLeeds @giulio_mattioli @DEMAND_CENTRE @eueduk FCO are poorer, less employed, and more likely to rent than average of the population. BUT, they are richer, more employed, and on mortgages than 'car deprived' households (=those who 'cannot afford' cars). 3/7

@CogitatioSI @WRUniPress @SRILeeds @ITSLeeds @giulio_mattioli @DEMAND_CENTRE @eueduk In 🇩🇪 FCO is higher in rural areas. In 🇬🇧at same level in urban, intermediate and rural areas. The reason is probably that in 🇬🇧poverty is higher in cities, which offsets lower car dependence 4/7

@CogitatioSI @WRUniPress @SRILeeds @ITSLeeds @giulio_mattioli @DEMAND_CENTRE @eueduk In both countries, FCOs have high levels of economic strain. For some items higher than other materially deprived households , despite higher incomes. Also high levels of burdensome debt (including possibly for car loans), notably in UK. 5/7

@CogitatioSI @WRUniPress @SRILeeds @ITSLeeds @giulio_mattioli @DEMAND_CENTRE @eueduk Also, intriguing possible links between FCO and #fuelpoverty as 66-80% (!) of FCOs are fuel poor. Are they cutting on heating because they need to spend on MOTOR fuel? 6/7

@CogitatioSI @WRUniPress @SRILeeds @ITSLeeds @giulio_mattioli @DEMAND_CENTRE @eueduk Paper illustrates potential of @EU_Eurostat EU-SILC data for analysis of car ownership, deprivation and other forms of #socialexclusion, across countries and over time 7/7

Correction: wrong link to the paper on the repository in the first tweet. This is the correct URL eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/122016/