Defining and measuring poverty in the nonmetropolitan United States using the survey of income and program Participation
| Autor: | Robert A. Hoppe |
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| Rok vydání: | 1991 |
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medicine.medical_specialty
Sociology and Political Science Poverty Public health General Social Sciences Metropolitan area Geography Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) Human geography Developmental and Educational Psychology medicine Measuring poverty Survey of Income and Program Participation Socioeconomics Quality of Life Research |
| Zdroj: | Social Indicators Research. 24:123-151 |
| ISSN: | 1573-0921 0303-8300 |
| DOI: | 10.1007/bf00300357 |
| Popis: | Because the poor historically have been more prevalent in nonmetropolitan than metropolitan areas in the United States, issues related to poverty (including its definition and measurement) are important to nonmetropolitan people. This study uses the unique monthly data from the Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP) to define poverty in different ways. How poverty is defined affects both the measured extent of nonmetropolitan poverty and the groups who are included among the nonmetropolitan poor. Regardless of how poverty is measured, however, nonmetropolitan areas have disproportionately more poor than metropolitan areas. In addition, the nonmetropolitan poor are more likely to be white, aged, disabled, and members of married-couple households than the metropolitan poor under all definitions considered. None of the definitions examined is intrinsically superior. The choice of a definition to use depends largely on the research problem under consideration. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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