Survey-Based Approach to Absolute Poverty Measurement

Balint Menyhert (), Zsombor Cseres-Gergely (), Virmantas Kvedaras (), Benedetta Mina (), Filippo Pericoli () and Slavica Zec ()
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Balint Menyhert: Joint Research Centre
Zsombor Cseres-Gergely: Joint Research Centre
Virmantas Kvedaras: Joint Research Centre
Benedetta Mina: Joint Research Centre
Filippo Pericoli: Joint Research Centre
Slavica Zec: Joint Research Centre

Chapter Chapter 5 in Measuring and Monitoring Absolute Poverty in the European Union, 2025, pp 123-180 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract This chapter presents a novel approach to absolute poverty measurement whereby survey information on households’ self-reported living conditions is used to calculate expenditure-based poverty thresholds. This so-called survey-based approach mixes subjective and objective considerations on minimum needs and represents an intermediate solution to ABSPO measurement between the piecemeal reference budget-based and statistical food-based approaches. The approach yields reliable minimum expenditure thresholds across four non-food expenditure categories (housing, transportation, health, residual expenditures) as modular inputs to calculating poverty thresholds, while also addressing a number of thematic areas and topical concerns facing European social policy today.

Keywords: Absolute poverty measurement; Survey-based measurement of poverty; EU household survey; European Union (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-63953-1_5

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