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Difficulty keeping the home warm

Share of the population reporting they cannot afford adequate home heating, by household type and poverty risk.

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Before you use this resource

This is a survey response, not a temperature or energy-efficiency measurement. Household categories can overlap.

Published by: Eurostat
Source: Public institution
Collection: Public data
Resource type: Dataset
Coverage: Romania; European comparisons
Documented formats: JSON-stat, HTML
Licence / terms: Eurostat reuse policy
API access: Documented API
Record review date: 2026-09-07
Last resource update: 2026-06-11T23:00:00+0200
Technical data audit: Not performed
Documentation: Source reviewed

Documentation

One API response was read, including dimensions, period and presence of observations. No complete statistical audit was performed.

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Getting started

For the overall measure, select hhcomp=TOTAL and rskpovth=TOTAL; the unit is PC.
Compare the same household type and retain year and missing values.

Access and checks

Inspected API example ↗ · JSON-stat
Sample inspected on 2026-09-07
Definition and methodology ↗ · PDF
Documented access; content not tested.

Reuse terms evidence ↗

Direct API queries

curl -s 'https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/api/dissemination/statistics/1.0/data/ilc_mdes01?lang=EN&geo=RO&lastTimePeriod=1' | jq .

import urllib.request
import json

url = "https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/api/dissemination/statistics/1.0/data/ilc_mdes01?lang=EN&geo=RO&lastTimePeriod=1"
req = urllib.request.Request(url, headers={"User-Agent": "CunoastereDeschisa/1.7"})
with urllib.request.urlopen(req) as resp:
    data = json.loads(resp.read().decode("utf-8"))
    print(json.dumps(data, indent=2)[:500])

library(jsonlite)

data <- fromJSON("https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/api/dissemination/statistics/1.0/data/ilc_mdes01?lang=EN&geo=RO&lastTimePeriod=1")
str(data)

INSTALL httpfs;
LOAD httpfs;

SELECT * FROM read_json_auto('https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/api/dissemination/statistics/1.0/data/ilc_mdes01?lang=EN&geo=RO&lastTimePeriod=1')
LIMIT 10;

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