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What is life like for children living in Estonia? How child-friendly is the Estonian society? Children’s well-being has an impact on the society’s future – therefore, it is an important topic of discussion and the focus of various organisations, political forces and the media. For better insight, it is necessary to collect data and study the situation and opportunities of children from various perspectives. The statistics cover many areas of children’s lives, such as the environment they grow up in, their living conditions, poverty and social exclusion, the standard of living of households

The subsistence minimum is the minimum amount of means of subsistence required to cover a person's daily needs. It serves as the absolute poverty threshold. Subsistence minimum is calculated taking into account food and dwelling expenditures and individual non-food expenditures. Subsistence minimum does not include expenditures on alcohol, tobacco products, package tours, the purchase of transport equipment and expenses in restaurants and hotels. The basis for calculating food expenditure is the minimum estimated food basket (2,400 kcal per day). It includes food products that cover a person’s