Creating a Consistent Poverty Measure over Time Using NAS Procedures: 1996-2005

Posted At : May 22, 2008 8:13 AM
Related Categories: Statistics,Income/Poverty

http://www.bls.gov/ore/pdf/ec080030.pdf

Presents an experimental poverty measure and compares it to the current official measure. Finds that increases in expenditures for shelter and utilities reveals a greater increase in the number of families not able to meet basic needs reflected in the experimental measure but not in the official one. From the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

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