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Supplemental Measures of Material Well-Being: Basic Needs, Consumer Durables, Energy, and Poverty, 1981 to 2002

Introduction

This report continues an effort begun in 2003 to explore additional ways of assessing the economic well-being of the U.S. population. Issued as a companion to the U.S. Census Bureau's reports on alternative measures of income and poverty, this report also attempts to expand our understanding of the population in poverty in the United States.

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