Measuring Poverty: A New Approach
Panel on Poverty and Family Assistance: Concepts, Information Needs, and Measurement Methods · Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education · Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education · National Research Council
May 1995 · National Academies Press
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Each year's poverty figures are anxiously awaited by policymakers, analysts, and the media. Yet questions are increasing about the 30-year-old measure as social and economic conditions change.
In Measuring Poverty a distinguished panel provides policymakers with an up-to-date evaluation of
Measuring Poverty will be important to government officials, policy analysts, statisticians, economists, researchers, and others involved in virtually all poverty and social welfare issues.
In Measuring Poverty a distinguished panel provides policymakers with an up-to-date evaluation of
- Concepts and procedures for deriving the poverty threshold, including adjustments for different family circumstances.
- Definitions of family resources.
- Procedures for annual updates of poverty measures.
Measuring Poverty will be important to government officials, policy analysts, statisticians, economists, researchers, and others involved in virtually all poverty and social welfare issues.
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