Study on Mathematical Literacy in the Context of the Household Welfare

The aim of this article is to investigate the extent to which poverty and inequality indicators as well as household income and consumption expenditure (from the EUROSTAT database) correlate with mathematical literacy indicators (from the OECD PISA 2012) in European countries. Using correlation analysis, there was analyzed the relationship between socio-economical indicators (Gini coefficient, people at risk of poverty or social exclusion, S80/S20 income quintile share ratio, unemployment rate, household median equivalised net income, household mean consumption expenditure per adult equivalent, household consumption expenditure for food and non-alcoholic beverages in percent from all consumption expenditure) and mathematical literacy indicators (mean score in mathematics, share of low achievers in mathematics, share of top achievers in mathematics). Using the cluster analysis there was carried out the European countries classification. The results show that the mathematical literacy and household poverty has a close relationship.