Measuring Poverty and Inequality from Highly Aggregated Small Area Data: The Changing Fortunes of Latrobe Valley Households

Jill Wright, Maria Rebecca Valenzuela and Duangkamon Chotikapanich

No 19-15, Monash Economics Working Papers from Monash University, Department of Economics

Abstract: Using census data, we analyse inequality and poverty levels for the coal-rich region of Latrobe Valley between 1986 and 2006, a period incorporating industry restructuring, recession and subsequent growth. To enable the analysis using limited information, we propose a method for using grouped data to obtain income distributions for small areas. Unit record data are used to validate the methodology. We find that welfare in the Valley deteriorated between 1986 and 1996, in line with national and regional trends. However, between 1996 and 2006, when the economy grew strongly and many regions started to prosper again, welfare in the Valley continued to deteriorate.

Keywords: Poverty; inequality; restructure; privatization; small-area income distribution (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D31 D63 I32 R13 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 32 pages
Date: 2015-03
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