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Direct Measures of Poverty as Indicators of Economic Need
The evidence presented here supports the use of hardship measures as a valid and useful measure of household well-being.


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Remarks on Geographic Variation in Housing Prices and Poverty
I will first discuss some issues and trade-offs in the measurement of housing prices that are relevant to the proposed changes in poverty measures.


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SIPP Quality Profile, 1998 (3rd edition)
The purpose of the Quality Profile is to summarize, in convenient form, what is known about the sources and magnitude of errors in estimates from SIPP.


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The Census Bureau's Plans for Poverty Measurement Research
This paper first briefly describes the origins and basis of the formal measurement of poverty in the United States.


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Medical Needs and the Poverty Thresholds
This paper tests the assertion that out-of-pocket medical spending is "much more variable than needs for such items as food and housing."


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Cohabitation and the Measurement of Child Poverty
We use 1990 U.S. Census of Population data to calculate what poverty rates would have been if cohabitors were treated in the same manner as married couples.


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Poverty Measurement Research
In this paper we implement the Panel's basic procedure, with slight modifications, and describe further work needed to implement remaining recommendations.

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