A sensitivity analysis of poverty definitions
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We conduct a sensitivity analysis of several estimators related to household income, to explore how some details of the definitions of the variables concerned influence the values of the common estimates, such as the mean, median and (poverty) rates. The purpose of this study is to highlight that some of the operational definitions entail an element of arbitrariness which leaves an undesirable stamp on the inferences made. The analyses use both a cross-sectional and a longitudinal (panel) component of the EU-SILC database.Download Info
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Date of creation: Nov 2009
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Handle: RePEc:irs:iriswp:2009-15
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Keywords: EU-SILC database ; poverty rate ; sampling weights;Other versions of this item:
- Nicholas T. Longford & Catia Nicodemo, 2009. "A sensitivity analysis of poverty definitions," Working Papers wpdea0908, Department of Applied Economics at Universitat Autonoma of Barcelona.
- C13 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Econometric and Statistical Methods and Methodology: General - - - Estimation: General
- C83 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Data Collection and Data Estimation Methodology; Computer Programs - - - Survey Methods; Sampling Methods
- I32 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Welfare and Poverty - - - Measurement and Analysis of Poverty
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- NEP-ALL-2009-11-27 (All new papers)
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- Verme, Paolo, 2009.
"Happiness, Deprivation and the Alter Ego,"
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2009-18, IRISS at CEPS/INSTEAD.
- Paolo Verme, 2010. "Happiness, deprivation and the alter ego," Working Papers 155, ECINEQ, Society for the Study of Economic Inequality.
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