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The Measure of Poverty: Department of Health, Education and Welfare (1976)
The Measure of Poverty
(Department of Health, Education, and Welfare 1976)
Final Report [PDF - 7.5M]
| Technical Papers | ||
|---|---|---|
| I. | Enhanced Table of Content [PDF - 16k] Documentation of Background Information and Rationale for Current Poverty Matrix [PDF - 23M] |
Mollie Orshansky Social Security Administration |
| II. | Administrative and Legislative Usages of the Terms "Poverty ," "Low Income," and Other Related Items [PDF - 21M] | Poverty Studies Task Force with assistance from Ellen Kraus |
| III. | A Literature Review of the Definition and Measurement of Poverty
|
Urban Systems Research and Engineering, Inc. |
| IV. | Bureau of Labor Statistics Family Budgets Program [PDF - 2,022k] | Mark Sherwood Bureau of Labor Statistics |
| V. | The Consumer Price Index [PDF - 1.9M] | Jill King Mathematica, Inc. |
| VI. | Wealth and the Accounting Period in the Measurement of Means [PDF - 1,943k] | Nelson McClung and Eugene Steurle Department of the Treasury |
| VII. | In-kind Income and the Measurement of Poverty [PDF - 4.6M] | Janice Peskin Health, Education, and Welfare |
| VIII. | The 1972-73 Consumer Expenditure Survey [PDF - 1.5M] | Jill King Mathematica, Inc. |
| IX. | Inventory of Federal Data Bases Related to the Measurement of Poverty [PDF - 48M] (a) Non-Census Data Bases (b) Census Data Bases |
Connie Citro, Mathematica, Inc. Bureau of the Census |
| X. | Effect of Using a Poverty Definition Based on Household Income [PDF - 519k] | Jack McNeil, Doug Sater, Arno Winard Bureau of the Census |
| XI. | Update of the Orshansky Index (Never Completed) |
Mollie Orshansky Social Security Administration |
| XII. | Food Plans for Poverty Measurement [PDF - 6.2M] | Betty Peterkin Department of Agriculture |
| XIII. | Geographic Differences and Relative Poverty [PDF - 787k] | Jack McNeil Bureau of the Census |
| XIV. | Relative Measure of Poverty [PDF - 4.2M] | Stanley Stephenson Health, Education, and Welfare |
| XV. | Analytic Support for Cost-of-Living Differentials in the Poverty Thresholds [PDF - 7.4M] | Thomas Carlin Department of Agriculture |
| XVI. | Implications of Alernative Measures of Poverty on Title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act [PDF - 2.0M] | Abdul Khan and Herman Miller Health, Education, and Welfare |
| XVII. | The Sensitivity of the Incidence of Poverty to Different Measures of Income: School-age Children and Families [PDF - 3.0M] | Survey Research Center University of Michigan |
| XVIII. | Characteristics of Low-Income Populations Under Alternative Poverty Definitions [PDF - 4.5M] | Lawrence Brown Health, Education, and Welfare |
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