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A comparison of income poverty measurement in Canada and the United States

In: Research Handbook on Measuring Poverty and Deprivation

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  • Thesia I. Garner
  • Shelley Phipps
  • Trudi Renwick

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Poverty measurement in two North American countries, Canada and the United States, is the focus of this chapter with official and supplementary measures reviewed. Early measures in both countries employed thresholds based on simple concepts of basic needs and before tax money income, as the resource concept. Poverty statistics were produced for families and their members. Newer measures are based on more recent concepts of needs and post-tax and post-transfer income and have expanded the unit of analysis beyond narrowly defined families. These and other similarities and differences are presented, along with poverty rates, by the ages of individuals, for 2009 through 2020.

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  • Thesia I. Garner & Shelley Phipps & Trudi Renwick, 2023. "A comparison of income poverty measurement in Canada and the United States," Chapters, in: Jacques Silber (ed.), Research Handbook on Measuring Poverty and Deprivation, chapter 57, pages 613-626, Edward Elgar Publishing.
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