The Survey on Income and Living Conditions (SILC) currently consists of a set of data that are collected annually and a system that combines modules that collect pre-defined complementary information on a regular basis and ad hoc modules on new information needs. The results presented in this press release include data from the annual component, as well as information for 2023 on "Intergenerational transmission of advantages and disadvantages", relating to the population aged 25 to 59 years, which allows the analysis of the relationship between parental sociodemographic characteristics and conditions of poverty in the present. The information collected is based on the respondents' parental background when they were about 14 years old.

The population aged 25 to 59 accounted for 45.8% of the total population at the beginning of 2023 (4.8 million people). Of these, 14.9% were at risk of poverty in 2022, which is lower than for the general population (17.0%).

The risks of poverty in 2022 were 17.3% and 17.2%, respectively, for those in whom the father or mother had not completed more than the current basic education, slightly above the national average (17.0%), but substantially lower for those in which, at the age of 14, one of the parents had completed upper secondary education,  post-secondary non-university or higher education (6.8% when it was the father; 8.6% when it was the mother).

For those who lived, at the age of 14, in a household whose father was Portuguese, the risk of poverty in 2022 was 13.7%, compared to 25.1% in situations where the father was a foreigner. There is a similar pattern in relation to the results for the mother's citizenship: 13.8% when Portuguese and 25.5% when foreign.

73.6% of the surveyed population assessed the financial situation of the household in which they lived at the age of 14 as moderately good, good or very good. Despite this, 12.2% were in poverty in 2022, although much lower than the incidence of poverty (21.2%) observed when the financial situation at the age of 14 was assessed as moderately bad, bad or very bad.

More than 95% of respondents had their basic educational and food needs met by the age of 14, but only 46.8% had the possibility of having one week's holiday away from home per year.