Experimental poverty measures : summary of a workshop / / John Iceland, rapporteur ; Planning Group for the Workshop to Assess the Current Status of Actions Taken in Response to Measuring Poverty: A New Approach, Committee on National Statistics, Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, National Research Council of the National Academies

• Pubblicazione: Washington, D.C., : National Academies Press, c2005
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (viii, 45 pages)
• Soggetto topico: Poverty - United States - Statistical methods; Poor - United States; Income distribution - United States; Households - United States; Wealth - United States
• Altri autori: IcelandJohn <1970->
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 35-36).
• Nota di contenuto: FrontMatter -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- 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 -- APPENDIXES -- A Workshop Agenda -- B Workshop Participants.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Experimental poverty measures
• ISBN: 9786610173709; 9780309165471; 0309165474; 9781280173707; 128017370X; 9780309547123; 0309547121; 9780309547121
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910966806603321
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