Superimpose Material Deprivation Study on Poverty Old Age People in Hong Kong Study
Superimpose Material Deprivation Study on Poverty Old Age People in Hong Kong Study
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DOI：
10.1007/s11205-017-1740-z
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发表时间：
2018-10-01
影响因子：
3.1
通讯作者：
Lee, Siu-Yau
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作者：
Chou, Kee-Lee;Lee, Siu-Yau
由于以收入为基础的老年人贫穷衡量有一系列缺点，因此提出了一种替代办法来抵消这些缺点。本文根据Townsend （Poverty in United Kingdom, Penguin Books, London, 1979）在香港提出的方法，报道了香港物质剥夺指数的验证。通过对2339名65岁及以上的中国老年人的调查，我们发现他们对日常生活必需品有广泛的共识，香港物质剥夺指数的信度和效度都很好，可以接受，是一个可靠有效的贫困衡量标准。最后，我们已经证明，穷人在收入方面和被剥夺者之间的重叠是适度的，核心穷人（在收入方面和被剥夺者方面都很穷）的概况与被剥夺者的情况比在收入方面贫穷的人更相似。香港物质匮乏指数的发展，提供了除收入贫穷以外的另一种衡量贫穷的补充指标，并为未来加深对老年贫穷的认识提供了途径。
Due to a range of shortcomings of income-based measures of poverty in older people, an alternative approach is proposed to counteract those shortcomings. Hong Kong index of material deprivation aims to identify a consensus-based list of goods and services that are necessities in society and to establish that these goods and services are not available due to their lack of affordability. This paper reports on the validation of Hong Kong index of material deprivation based on an approach proposed by Townsend (Poverty in the United Kingdom, Penguin Books, London, 1979) in Hong Kong. Through a survey of 2339 older Chinese people aged 65 and older, we found that a broad consensus regarding the necessities in their daily lives exists and Hong Kong index of material deprivation is a reliable and valid measure of poverty because its reliability and validity is good and acceptable. Finally, we have shown that the overlap between the poor in terms of income and the deprived is moderate and the profiles of those who are core poor (both poor in terms of income and the deprived) are more similar to those who are deprived than those who are poor in terms of income. Hong Kong index of material deprivation index has been developed, which offers a supplementary measure of poverty other than income poor and provides future avenues for improved understandings of poverty in old age.