Measures of Material Deprivation in OECD Countries

The paper discusses the use of material deprivation measures for an analysis of poverty in OECD countries. Its main goal is to identify suitable survey questions that might be used in comparative analysis, as a first step towards the construction of more satisfactory poverty measures. The paper proposes a simple taxonomy of the broad notion of...

本文探讨了采用物质匮乏测度指标（material deprivation measures）对经济合作与发展组织（Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development, OECD）成员国的贫困状况开展分析的路径。本文的核心目标是筛选适用于比较分析的合适调查问题，以此作为构建更合理完善的贫困测度体系的首要步骤。本文还针对广义的……概念提出了一套简易的分类框架。