Reconciliation of Income and Consumption Data in Poverty Measurement

Autor/in	Bavier, Richard
Titel	Reconciliation of Income and Consumption Data in Poverty Measurement
Quelle	In: Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 27 (2008) 1, S.40-62 (23 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0276-8739
DOI	10.1002/pam.20306
Schlagwörter	Poverty; Income; Money Management; Consumer Economics; Expenditures; Evaluation Methods; Methods Research; Correlation; Social Indicators; Rating Scales; Statistical Analysis; Statistical Data; National Surveys; Interrater Reliability + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Armut; Einkommen; Konsumökonomie; Ausgaben; Methodenforschung; Korrelation; Social indicator; Sozialer Indikator; Rating-Skala; Statistische Analyse; Interrater-Reliabilität
Abstract	A recent series of papers has renewed interest in the question of whether consumption data are superior to income data for poverty measurement. Although the Census Bureau has provided researchers with an experimental series of variables that can produce a comprehensive income measure, this resource has not been fully exploited in previous analyses. When poverty is measured by a comprehensive income measure, income poverty rates and trends are similar to consumption poverty rates. Arguments that income is measured with more error than consumption at the bottom of the distribution are shown to be based upon inferior income data. (Contains 3 figures, 9 tables and 22 footnotes. Appended are: (1) Development of Consumption Measures from Expenditure Data; (2) Comparison of Consumption Poverty Estimates; and (3) Expenditures of CE "Complete Income Reporters" Are Not Representative of all Consumer Units'.) (Author).
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Update	2017/4/10