official poverty

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This analysis therefore serves to illuminate a range of issues relating to officialpoverty targets and to what constitutes progress in combating poverty.
The experimental poverty measure appears to describe a population that looks more like that described by material hardship than the officialpoverty measure.
Their suggestion was that revising the officialpoverty measure would improve the correlation between material hardship and poverty.
They shared her husband's pension (470 pesos, equivalent to £55 a month), and their per capita income was below the officialpoverty line (£45).
The authors cited three critical problems with the officialpoverty measure, one being the low correlation often found between cash income and material hardship.
Examining correlations between income and material hardship by family characteristics, the authors concluded that officialpoverty statistics are an unreliable guide to the distribution of hardship.
On the average, 56% of the participants in each sample lived in neighborhoods where 20% or more of the nonelderly poor lived below the officialpoverty line.
In the end, however, the authors suggested a measure that includes people with certain kinds of hardships and with incomes below 200 per cent of the officialpoverty thresholds.
Two out every three pensioners are living at or very near the point of officialpoverty.
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