This Eurostat dataset contains data on inability to afford basic school needs (books and equipment for school) when respondent was around 14 years old, as collected and published by the Statistical Office of the European Union.

Tables included:

• raw: Original table as downloaded from Eurostat.
• tidy: A cleaned and transformed version of the raw table, where time period values appear as rows instead of columns (unpivoted format).

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