Asset-based versus money metric poverty indices in South Africa: An assessment using the chronic poverty research centre RSA 2002 survey

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dc.creatorCrosoer, David
dc.creatorLeibbrandt, Murray
dc.creatorWoolard, Ingrid
dc.date2013-10-10T19:38:19Z
dc.date2013-10-10T19:38:19Z
dc.date2005-12
dc.date.accessioned2015-05-28T10:06:27Z
dc.date.available2015-05-28T10:06:27Z
dc.date.issued2015-05-28
dc.descriptionUsing data from a detailed chronic poverty survey of three South African communities, this paper compares the correlations between traditional (i.e. income and expenditure) and wealth-based measures of poverty in ranking households as poor as well as their ability to explain additional qualitative measures of persistent poverty such as household hunger. We find significant locational differences in terms of the composition of household wealth measures and this complicates the derivation of appropriate wealth indices. Traditional money-metric measures of poverty that abstract from location appear to explain short-term measures of deprivation like household hunger relatively well, and consistently capture the bottom and top deciles of the distribution. On their own, wealth-based measures appear less suited to explaining household hunger, suggesting that liquid based measures for short-term indicators are more appropriate.
dc.identifierhttp://hdl.handle.net/11090/657
dc.identifier.ris TY - Working Paper DA - 2015-05-28 DB - OpenUCT DP - University of Cape Town KW - Poverty KW - Assets KW - South Africa KW - Chronic poverty KW - Money-metric poverty LK - https://open.uct.ac.za PB - University of Cape Town PY - 2015 T1 - Asset-based versus money metric poverty indices in South Africa: An assessment using the chronic poverty research centre RSA 2002 survey TI - Asset-based versus money metric poverty indices in South Africa: An assessment using the chronic poverty research centre RSA 2002 survey UR - http://hdl.handle.net/11090/657 ER - en_ZA
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11090/657
dc.languageen
dc.publisherCSSR and SALDRU
dc.publisher.departmentSALDRUen_ZA
dc.publisher.facultyFaculty of Commerceen_ZA
dc.publisher.institutionUniversity of Cape Town
dc.relationCSSR/SALDRU Working Paper;109
dc.subjectPoverty
dc.subjectAssets
dc.subjectSouth Africa
dc.subjectChronic poverty
dc.subjectMoney-metric poverty
dc.titleAsset-based versus money metric poverty indices in South Africa: An assessment using the chronic poverty research centre RSA 2002 survey
dc.typeWorking Paper
uct.type.publicationResearchen_ZA
uct.type.resourceWorking Paperen_ZA
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