Personal Assessments of Minimum Income and Expenses: What Do They Tell Us about ‘Minimum Living ’ Thresholds and Equivalence Scales?

Personal Assessments of Minimum Income and Expenses: What Do They Tell Us about ‘Minimum Living ’ Thresholds and Equivalence Scales? (2002)

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@MISC{Garner02personalassessments,
    author = {Thesia I. Garner and Kathleen S. Short},
    title = {Personal Assessments of Minimum Income and Expenses: What Do They Tell Us about ‘Minimum Living ’ Thresholds and Equivalence Scales?},
    year = {2002}
}

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others attending the session for their comments and suggestions during and after the conference. To Larry Radbill we extend our sincere gratitude for his diligence and insight in making the data that we used for this study, the Basic Needs Module of the Survey of Income and Program Participation, a reality. To Gordon Fisher we extend our thanks for loaning parts of his library to us, for encouraging us constantly along the way, and providing comments on drafts of the paper. We also thank Arie Kapteyn and Klaas de Vos for their comments on our work and guidance and support throughout our project as we followed the methods of the Leyden group and the generations that follow. To Susan Poulin we owe special thanks for discussions concerning the Statistics Canada study in which the same basic methods as ours are used. We thank Linda Stinson, Clyde Tucker, and others within the Bureau of Labor Statistics for their guidance in exploring the “whys ” and “hows ” of minimum income and spending. Thanks also go to Teague Ruder for research assistance, and David Johnson, Chuck Nelson, Daniel Weinberg, and an anonymous referee for excellent comments and suggestions. This paper reports the results of research and analysis undertaken by U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics and U.S. Census Bureau staff. This work has gone through internal review with our respective organizations and now is released to inform interested parties of research and to encourage discussion. All views

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