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In recent years there has been a renewed interest among social science researchers and policymakers concerning the definition, measurement, and incidence of poverty. With government agencies producing statistics for quite some time concerning the incidence of poverty and the characteristics of poor individuals and households, there have also been parallel activities to improve the identification and measurement of poverty. This has been particularly true within the United States (U.S.), countries in Europe, Canada and Australia.
The views expressed in this paper are those of the authors and do not reflect the policies of the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. The research of De Vos was partly made possible by a grant from the Dutch Foundation for the Advancement of Research in the Economic Sciences (ECOZOEK), part of the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research. Thanks to Mary Kokoski, Dennis Fixler, Kimberly D. Zieschang, Marshall Reinsdorf, Gordon Fischer, Patricia Ruggles, Connie Sorrentino, and other colleagues at the Bureau of Labor Statistics for comments, and to Anna Sanders and Richard Miller for assistance in manuscript preparation and research assistance, repectively. Final revisions to the manuscript were made when Garner was a visiting Fulbright scholar at the institute of Sociology, Czech Academy of Sciences, in Prague.
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Garner, T.I., de Vos, K. (1994). Income Sufficiency, Expenditures and Subjective Poverty: Results from the United States and the Netherlands. In: Eichhorn, W. (eds) Models and Measurement of Welfare and Inequality. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-79037-9_3
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