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Non-food and non-housing costs

In: Living Wages Around the World

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Chapter 7 describes how to estimate essential needs for decency besides food and housing. Since it would not be practical to list, agree on, and price all essential non-food non-housing (NFNH) needs, the Anker methodology uses secondary data from a recent household expenditure survey to help estimate essential needs. The ratio of NFNH costs to food costs from a recent household survey is multiplied by the cost of the living wage model diet. This chapter discusses the considerable variability in how countries measure and classify food, housing and NFNH costs in surveys and statistics, and how to adjust for this variability so that the NFNH to food ratio used to estimate NFNH needs is consistent with the Anker methodology. A list of what is included in each expenditure group in CIOCOP (Classification of Individual Consumption According to Purpose) is included in an Annex.

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  • ., 2017. "Non-food and non-housing costs," Chapters, in: Living Wages Around the World, chapter 7, pages 169-196, Edward Elgar Publishing.
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