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1The Committee on National Statistics (CNSTAT) of the NationalResearch Council (NRC)
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2 EXPERIMENTAL POVERTY MEASURES from the scientific community on which components of alternative measures are methodologically sound and which might need further refinement, toward the goal of narrowing the number of alternative measures that should be considered. For the workshop, the planning group asked several researchers to prepare papers as the basis for discussions.
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INTRODUCTION AND BACKGROUND 3 the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
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4 EXPERIMENTAL POVERTY MEASURES to account for other needs (such as clothing and shelter) , no longer capture families' basic needs because of the growth in housing costs and other expenditures (such as medical care and childcare)
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INTRODUCTION AND BACKGROUND 5 old, the report recommended a range of possible values based on its own judgment, informed by a consideration of family budgets developed by experts, relative poverty thresholds, and "subjective" poverty thresholds. A subsequent Census Bureau report used the midpoint of the recommended range; this figure, for the four basic categories plus other needs, turned out to be roughly equal to the median actual expenditure for the four basic categories alone in 1997.
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6 EXPERIMENTAL POVERTY MEASURES Bureau, in a coordinated effort with researchers at the Bureau of Labor Statistics, issued two reports devoted to experimental poverty measures. The Census Bureau has also released a number of alternative poverty measure estimates in materials that accompany the annual official poverty reports from 1999 to the present.
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INTRODUCTION AND BACKGROUND 7 The workshop was designed to include discussion of the elements of the NRC recommendations that have received considerable attention. Sessions were devoted to the following: setting and updating a reference family poverty threshold; equivalence scales; geographic adjustments to thresholds; medical out-of-pocket expenses; work-related expenses including child care; incorporating the value of housing; and data issues and other miscellaneous topics.
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