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| On 'consistent' poverty | | Author(s) | Rod Hick |
| Corporate Author | ESRC Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion - CASE, Suntory-Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines - STICERD, London School of Economics and Political Science |
| Publisher | STICERD, London, 2012 |
| Pages | 18 pp (CASEpaper 167) |
| Source | Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion, London School of Economics, Houghton Street, London WC2A 2AE. http://sticerd.lse.ac.uk/case |
| Keywords | Poverty ; Measurement. |
| Annotation | The measurement of poverty as 'consistent' poverty offers a solution to one of the primary problems of poverty measurement within social policy of the last three decades. Often treated as if they were synonymous, 'indirect' measures of poverty, such as low income measures, and 'direct' measures, such as indices of material deprivation, identify surprisingly different people as being poor. In response to this mismatch, a team of Irish researchers put forward a measure which identified respondents as being in poverty when they experienced both a low standard of living, as measured by deprivation indicators, and a lack of resources, as measured by a low income line. Importantly, they argued that the two measures required an equal weight. The author presents a reconsideration of the consistent poverty measure from both conceptual and empirical perspectives. In particular, he examines the claim that low income and material deprivation measures should be given an 'equal weight'. He argues that, from a conceptual perspective, the nature of the indicators at hand means that a deprivation-led measurement approach might be understood to align with the definition of poverty outlined by Nolan and Whelan; and, from an empirical perspective, that it is the material deprivation measure - and not the low income measure - which is particularly effective in identifying individuals at risk of multiple forms of deprivation. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-130625003 B |
| Classmark | W6: 3R |
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