Counting the poor: an elementary difficulty in the measurement of proverty
Counting the poor: an elementary difficulty in the measurement of proverty
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计算穷人：衡量贫困的基本困难
DOI：
10.1017/s0266267102002055
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发表时间：
2002
影响因子：
1.2
通讯作者：
S. Subramanian
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作者：
S. Subramanian
这份报告表明，明确一个人所说的“贫困程度”是什么意思，这对衡量一个社会的贫困程度有很大帮助。后一概念可指按人口规模归一化的贫困程度，或未按人口规模归一化的贫困程度。这一区别--既简单又重要--缺乏明确性，可能导致在衡量贫穷方面出现相当直接的连贯性和一致性问题。
This note suggests that the exercise of measuring poverty in a society is greatly aided by clarity on precisely what one means by “the extent of poverty”. The latter concept may refer to the extent of poverty normalized for population size, or to the extent of poverty not so normalized. Absence of clarity on this distinction – which is both simple and non-trivial – could lead to rather straightforward problems of coherence and consistency in the measurement of poverty.