Asset-based versus money metric poverty indices in South Africa: an assessment using the Chronic Poverty Research Centre RSA 2002 Survey

dc.contributor.authorCrosoer, David
dc.contributor.authorLeibbrandt, Murray
dc.contributor.authorWoolard, Ingrid
dc.date.accessioned2016-04-26T12:23:00Z
dc.date.available2016-04-26T12:23:00Z
dc.date.issued2005
dc.date.updated2016-04-26T12:13:48Z
dc.description.abstractUsing 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 more liquid based measures for short-term indicators are more appropriate.en_ZA
dc.identifier.apacitationCrosoer, D., Leibbrandt, M., & Woolard, I. (2005). <i>Asset-based versus money metric poverty indices in South Africa: an assessment using the Chronic Poverty Research Centre RSA 2002 Survey</i> University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Humanities ,Centre for Social Science Research(CSSR). Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/11427/19232en_ZA
dc.identifier.chicagocitationCrosoer, David, Murray Leibbrandt, and Ingrid Woolard <i>Asset-based versus money metric poverty indices in South Africa: an assessment using the Chronic Poverty Research Centre RSA 2002 Survey.</i> University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Humanities ,Centre for Social Science Research(CSSR), 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/19232en_ZA
dc.identifier.citationCrosoer, D., Leibbrandt, M., & Woolard, I. (2005). Asset-based versus money metric poverty indices in South Africa: an assessment using the chronic poverty research centre RSA 2002 survey. Centre for Social Science Research: University of Cape Town.en_ZA
dc.identifier.ris TY - Working Paper AU - Crosoer, David AU - Leibbrandt, Murray AU - Woolard, Ingrid AB - Using 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 more liquid based measures for short-term indicators are more appropriate. DA - 2005 DB - OpenUCT DP - University of Cape Town LK - https://open.uct.ac.za PB - University of Cape Town PY - 2005 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/11427/19232 ER - en_ZA
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11427/19232
dc.identifier.vancouvercitationCrosoer D, Leibbrandt M, Woolard I. Asset-based versus money metric poverty indices in South Africa: an assessment using the Chronic Poverty Research Centre RSA 2002 Survey. 2005 [cited yyyy month dd]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/11427/19232en_ZA
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dc.publisher.departmentCentre for Social Science Research(CSSR)en_ZA
dc.publisher.facultyFaculty of Humanitiesen_ZA
dc.publisher.institutionUniversity of Cape Town
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