Measuring Poverty: Do the Proposed Revisions of the Poverty Measure Matter for Rural America?

Mark Nord and Peggy Cook

No 278786, Staff Reports from United States Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service

Abstract: Proposed changes in poverty measurement methods would lower the nonmetro poverty rate by 3 percentage points and raise the metro poverty rate by 1 percentage point. The resulting nonmetro poverty rate would be lower than the metro rate, reversing the historic rural poverty gap. Measured poverty would decline by 4 percentage points in the nonmetro South and by more than 10 percentage points for nonmetro blacks. The adjustment for cost of housing accounts for most of the metro-nonmetro difference between the current and proposed measures.

Keywords: Community/Rural/Urban Development; Food Security and Poverty (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 20
Date: 1995-07
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DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.278786

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