Measuring Poverty Using Qualitative Perceptions of Consumption Adequacy
展示如何利用家庭调查中关于食物、住房和服装消费充足性的简单定性回答来推导主观贫困线，并在牙买加和尼泊尔的数据中验证其稳健性，发现总体贫困率与客观贫困线接近，但地理和人口特征存在差异。
We show that subjective poverty lines can be derived using simple qualitative assessments of perceived consumption adequacy based on a household survey. We implement the method using survey data for Jamaica and Nepal. Respondents were asked whether their consumptions of food, housing, and clothing were adequate for their family's needs. The implied poverty lines are robust to alternative methods of dealing with other components of expenditure. The aggregate poverty rates accord quite closely with those based on independent "objective" poverty lines. However, there are notable differences in the geographic and demographic poverty profiles. © 2000 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology