Title 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

Published Washington, D.C. : National Academies Press, ©2005

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 45 pages) Contents 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 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references Notes English Print version record Subject Poverty -- United States -- Statistical methods Poor -- United States -- Congresses Income distribution -- United States -- Congresses Households -- United States -- Congresses Wealth -- United States -- Congresses SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Poverty & Homelessness. Households Income distribution Poor Poverty -- Statistical methods Wealth United States Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings Form Electronic book Author Iceland, John, 1970- National Research Council (U.S.). Planning Group for the Workshop to Assess the Current Status of Actions Taken in Response to Measuring Poverty: A New Approach. Workshop on Experimental Poverty Measures (2004 : Washington, D.C.) ISBN 0309547121 9780309547123 9786610173709 6610173702 0309165474 9780309165471

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