Définition
The intensity of poverty makes it possible to see how far the living standard of the poor population is from the poverty line. Like Eurostat, INSEE measures this indicator as the relative gap between the median standard of living of the poor population and the poverty line. The higher this indicator is, the more intense the poverty is said to be, in the sense that the standard of living of the poorest is far below the poverty line.
Formally, it is calculated as follows: (poverty line - median standard of living of the poor population) / poverty line