There is a long tradition of using consumption measures derived from Statistics Canada's household expenditures surveys to study material well-being, inequality, and poverty. We offer an introduction to this research. Income and consumption measures give different pictures of the patterns of material well-being in Canada, but the differences are not as large as in the US. We also provide a comparison to Meyer and Sullivan's results on data quality. Canadian expenditure surveys are of high quality. Unique aspects of these surveys (variation in quality control measures over time and the possibility of comparing to income tax data) provide important insights into the quality of survey data on income and consumption. Il existe une longue tradit...
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Cet article utilise des estimés d’intensité de la pauvreté de Sen-Shorrocks-Thon pour les provinces ...
I extend the analysis of head-count measures of income and consumption poverty to all currently avai...
In the U.S., analyses of poverty rates and the effects of anti-poverty programs rely almost exclusiv...
In this paper, I estimate the poverty rate as the proportion of individuals who have consumption - r...
This report presents estimates of the Levy Institute Measure of Economic Well-Being (LIMEW) for a re...
What is a deprivation index? Since the late 1800s, many different ways of measuring poverty have bee...
Abstract. Increasing attention is being paid in academic, policy, and public arenas to subjective me...
The views expressed in papers published by the Applied Research Branch are the authors ’ and do not ...
This report presents estimates of the Levy Institute Measure of Economic Well-Being (LIMEW) for a re...
In light of Gross Domestic Product’s (GDP) well-known limitations as a wellbeing indicator, many alt...
This paper uses an exercise similar to comparative statics to show that the growth rate of the Index...
In this article we consider the factors driving variations in poverty rates among Canadian seniors f...
Household surveys are playing an increasingly important role in the measurement of poverty and well-...
This paper discusses and describes measures of poverty and, on the basis of that discussion, propose...
Abstract Background A limited number of health status and health-related quality of life (HRQL) meas...
Cet article utilise des estimés d’intensité de la pauvreté de Sen-Shorrocks-Thon pour les provinces ...
I extend the analysis of head-count measures of income and consumption poverty to all currently avai...
In the U.S., analyses of poverty rates and the effects of anti-poverty programs rely almost exclusiv...