Experimental Poverty Measures
Summary of a Workshop
National Research Council author Committee on National Statistics author Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education author Planning Group for the Workshop to Assess the Current Status of Actions Taken in Response to Measuring Poverty: A New Approach author John Iceland editor
Format:Paperback
Publisher:National Academies Press
Published:27th Jan '05
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The Committee on National Statistics (CNSTAT) of the National Research Council (NRC) convened a workshop on June 15-16, 2004, to review federal research on alternative methods for measuring poverty. The workshop had been requested by the U.S. Office of Management and Budget to evaluate progress in moving toward a new measure of poverty, as recommended by the 1995 report, Measuring Poverty: A New Approach. Experimental Poverty Measures is the summary of that workshop. This report discusses which components of alternative measures are methodologically sound and which might need further refinement,toward the goal of narrowing the number of alternative measures that should be considered.
Table of Contents- Front Matter
- 1 Introduction and Background
- 2 Setting and Updating Thresholds
- 3 Equivalence Scales
- 4 Geographic Adjustments to Thresholds
- 5 Medical Expenses
- 6 Work-Related and Child Care Expenses
- 7 Housing
- 8 Data Issues, Other Topics, and Future Research
- References
- Appendix A Workshop Agenda
- Appendix B Workshop Participants <
ISBN: 9780309095204
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56 pages