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BRI?CARIU Roxana FAMP

LAKE OF UTILITIES. ACCESS TO LOCAL UTILITIES OF ROMA CITIZENS COMPARATIVE WITH
NON-ROMA POPULATION CCASP

One explication for this different degree in connection to the utilities network is the position of the Roma
households, inside or outside of the villages, considering that 22% of Roma population is living in
compact communities. In regard to the issue of marginalization of the Roma communities, I can here
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trace some aspects. First, we must establish if there is a significant relationship between the position of
Roma people housing in relation to the city grounds - on the edge or inside - and the type of community

- homogeneous or heterogeneous. The correlation between these two variables is statistically significant
and has a positive trend, registering a Spearman coefficient of 0.25. Therefore, if these individuals have
residence on the outskirts of the village they are likely to be surrounded only by Roma families. More

than a third of those who consider they are living in the village periphery say they are solely surrounded
by Roma families. Also more than one-tenth of the Roma ethnicity respondents live in communities

consisting entirely of people of the same ethnicity. Other than that, for all the other cases a high degree
of heterogeneity in the community can be observed. The marginalization of the Roma individuals, with
or without their consent, represents a barrier in the way of their access to the education system, health

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services and even the labor market opportunities (Zamfir et al., 2002, p. 285).

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40
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0
Only roma families Roma and other A few families of No Roma families Cannot be
ethnic groups Roma and a determined
majority of other
ethnic individuals
Outside village Inside villege

FIGURE 3. THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE POSITION OF THE HOUSEHOLD IN RELATION TO THE VILLAGE (OUTSIDE / INSIDE)
AND THE SUBJECTIVE ESTIMATION OF THE ETHNIC HOMOGENEITY OF THE COMMUNITY.
Source: Cace et al., 2013, p. 48

4. AMENITIES PRESENT IN THE HOUSEHOLD

Besides access to utilities, to correctly assess the comfort level, we must also consider the amenities
present in the household, appliances that, without access to the public range of utilities, would be

considered meaningless. In Figure is the situation of appliances: cooker stove, phone, refrigerator,

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