Research Catalog

Title

Measuring poverty : a new approach / Constance F. Citro and Robert T. Michael, editors ; Panel on Poverty and Family Assistance: Concepts, Information Needs, and Measurement Methods ... [et al.].

Publication

Washington, D.C. : National Academy Press, c1995.

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Additional Authors

• Citro, Constance F. (Constance Forbes), 1942-
• Michael, Robert T.
• Panel on Poverty and Family Assistance (United States)
• Panel on Poverty and Family Assistance (U.S.)

Description

xviii, 501 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Summary

Provides an evaluation of concepts and procedures for deriving the poverty threshold, including adjustments for different family circumstances; definitions of family resources; and procedures for annual updates of poverty measures. Explores specific issues underlying the poverty measure, analyzes the likely effects of any changes on poverty rates, and discusses the impact on eligibility for public benefits.

Subject

Poverty > United States > Statistical methods

Genre/Form

• economic evaluation.
• bibliography.
• graph.
• évaluation économique.
• bibliographie.
• graphique.
• evaluación económica.
• bibliografía.
• gráfico.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 449-482) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• Summary and recommendations. Introduction and overview -- What is poverty? -- The official U.S. poverty measure -- Alternative poverty measures and criteria for a measure -- A new approach to poverty measurement : recommendations -- Use of the poverty measure in government programs -- Poverty thresholds. Threshold concepts -- Recommendations -- Expert budgets -- Relative thresholds -- Subjective thresholds -- Conclusions -- Implementing the proposed approach -- Adjusting poverty thresholds. Adjustments by family type -- Adjustments by geographic area -- Defining resources. Overview and recommendation -- Alternatives for defining resources -- Proposed resource definition -- Effects of the proposed poverty measure. Data and procedures -- Results -- Data sources --
• (cont.) Other issues in measuring poverty. Time period -- Unit of analysis and presentation -- Indexes of poverty -- The limited scope of measuring economic poverty -- Use of the poverty measure in government. Assistance programs. Recommendation -- Government assistance programs -- Using the proposed poverty measure -- The poverty measure and AFDC. Determining program benefit levels -- Determining state AFDC standards of need.

ISBN

0309051282 (cloth)

LCCN

^^^95003901^

OCLC

• 31969615
• SCSB-12398550

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library