Measured as Poor Versus Feeling Poor: Comparing Objective and Subjective Poverty Rates in South Africa

Dorrit Posel and Michael Rogan

No wp-2014-133, WIDER Working Paper Series from World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER)

Abstract: In this paper, we compare subjective and money-metric measures of poverty in South Africa using data collected in the 2008/09 Living Conditions Survey. In addition to collecting detailed information on expenditure, the survey asked respondents to provide an assessment of the economic status of their household, ranging from 'very poor' to 'wealthy'. We find considerable overlap between per capita expenditure measures of poverty status and subjective poverty status among households.

Keywords: Econometric models (Economic development); Economies of scale; Income; Poverty (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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