Using the median and the mean of the income to establish the poverty lines

One of the methods to estimate the poverty level inside a given population is based on how to define the poverty line values. Each person having his income under the poverty threshold will be considered to be poor. In the literature we distinguish at least three approaches: to evaluate the absolute...

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Main Authors: Maria Livia STEFANESCU, Stefan STEFANESCU
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: "Nicolae Titulescu" University of Bucharest 2014-06-01
Series:Computational Methods in Social Sciences
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Online Access:http://cmss.univnt.ro/wp-content/uploads/vol/split/vol_II_issue_1/CMSS_vol_II_issue_1_art.002.pdf