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Abstract #302298

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Activity Number:	433
Type:	Invited
Date/Time:	Wednesday, August 10, 2005 : 2:00 PM to 3:50 PM
Sponsor:	Social Statistics Section
Abstract - #302298
Title:	NAS Workshop Summary Report
Author(s):	John Iceland*+
Companies:	University of Maryland
Address:	2112 Art/Sociology Building, College Park, MD, 20742-1315,
Keywords:	poverty ; measurement
Abstract:	The Committee on National Statistics convened a workshop in June of 2004 to review research on alternative poverty measures. While there were often differences in opinion among workshop participants, after lengthy discussions, a general consensus was reached on (among other issues) adopting a single new poverty measure; creating thresholds based on the dollar value of food, clothing, shelter, utilities, expected medical expenses, and a little more in the reference family threshold; using a three-parameter equivalence scale to adjust thresholds for families of different sizes and compositions; using CE data to update thresholds; not making geographic price adjustments to the poverty thresholds (current methods available were deemed technically problematic); accounting for expected child care and other work-related expenses; incorporating the value of owner-occupied housing; and continuing to calculate the current poverty measure for the foreseeable future, given how familiar that measure is to many people. Workshop participants noted the importance to operationalize a measure that was internally consistent and statistically defensible.

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