only of single women with or without children in finland said they were finding it difficult to make ends meet in but this share goes up to for single women in greece total income is defined as the sum at the household level of the following components wage salary and selfemployment income of household members capital and property income private pensions private occupational pensions and all kinds of private transfers and social security transfers from public sources total income is expressed in terms of equivalent household member by dividing it by the square root of household size