A comparison of income poverty measurement in Canada and the United States

Thesia I. Garner, Shelley Phipps and Trudi Renwick

Chapter 57 in Research Handbook on Measuring Poverty and Deprivation, 2023, pp 613-626 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: Poverty measurement in two North American countries, Canada and the United States, is the focus of this chapter with official and supplementary measures reviewed. Early measures in both countries employed thresholds based on simple concepts of basic needs and before tax money income, as the resource concept. Poverty statistics were produced for families and their members. Newer measures are based on more recent concepts of needs and post-tax and post-transfer income and have expanded the unit of analysis beyond narrowly defined families. These and other similarities and differences are presented, along with poverty rates, by the ages of individuals, for 2009 through 2020.

Keywords: Development Studies; Economics and Finance; Geography; Research Methods; Sociology and Social Policy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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