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Mapping the Australian Poverty Profile: A Multidimensional Deprivation Approach

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  • Peter Saunders
  • Yuvisthi Naidoo

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The limitations of income‐based poverty lines are widely acknowledged, but Australia lags behind many other countries in implementing new measures of social disadvantage based on the deprivation approach. A new suite of questions included in wave 14 of the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) survey allows the deprivation approach to be applied. This article describes the advantages of the deprivation approach and shows that while the income and deprivation approaches can produce similar overall results, the circumstances of some sub‐groups vary greatly according to which measure is used. A measure based on deprivation alone and/or a combined measure would be an important complement to conventional income‐based poverty rates.

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  • Peter Saunders & Yuvisthi Naidoo, 2018. "Mapping the Australian Poverty Profile: A Multidimensional Deprivation Approach," Australian Economic Review, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research, vol. 51(3), pages 336-350, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:ausecr:v:51:y:2018:i:3:p:336-350
    DOI: 10.1111/1467-8462.12266
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    1. Zenghui Huo & Mei Zhang, 2023. "Multidimensional Deprivation and Subgroup Heterogeneity of Rural Households in China: Empirical Evidence from Latent Variable Estimation Methods," Social Indicators Research: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal for Quality-of-Life Measurement, Springer, vol. 165(3), pages 975-997, February.
    2. Kitae Yoo, 2023. "The Poisson Method of Poverty Measurement Using Non-monetary Indicators: A Replication Study Based on Australian Data," Social Indicators Research: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal for Quality-of-Life Measurement, Springer, vol. 166(1), pages 219-238, February.
    3. Peter Saunders & Yuvisthi Naidoo & Melissa Wong, 2022. "Comparing the Monetary and Living Standards Approaches to Poverty Using the Australian Experience," Social Indicators Research: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal for Quality-of-Life Measurement, Springer, vol. 162(3), pages 1365-1385, August.
    4. Roger Wilkins, 2021. "Economic Wellbeing," Australian Economic Review, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research, vol. 54(4), pages 469-481, December.

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