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| Material and financial hardship and income-based poverty measures in the USA | | Author(s) | Kathleen S Short |
| Journal title | Journal of Social Policy, vol 34, no 1, January 2005 |
| Pages | pp 21-38 |
| Source | http://www.journals.cambridge.org |
| Keywords | Poverty ; Measurement ; Indicators ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | Individuals and families may encounter difficulty making ends meet on many dimensions, and there are a large number of measures designed to identify those groups most in need. While no single indicator can yield a complete picture of poverty, there is generally agreement that all of the approaches capture different pieces of the puzzle. To help understand this multidimensional aspect of poverty, this article examines measures including: the official US poverty measure; a relative poverty measure; an experimental measure following recommendations of the US National Academy of Sciences; an index of material hardship; a measure of household debt; and responses to a question about inability to meet expenses. This article uses the 1996 panel of the Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP). The SIPP is a US longitudinal survey that allows us to examine all of these various indicators for the same people over the period from 1996 to 1998. The study uses regression analysis to assess the relationship between and among the various indicators of economic hardship. (KJ/RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-050221209 A |
| Classmark | W6: 3R: 3RI: 7T |
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