Jonathan Bradshaw
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53 appearances
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first heard May 2011
last heard May 2011
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But in fact, there isn't such a thing as an absolute poverty measure, even in its initial harsh manner relative.
But those kinds of measures went out of fashion in Britain in the post-war period.
And really the only rich country that has continued with that kind of measure is the U.S.,
We need to measure poverty in a variety of ways.
My preferred method of measuring poverty is to use a combination of low income, however defined, and deprivation indicators.
When you say deprivation indicators, what do you mean?
Well, social scientists in Britain in the 50s and 60s developed these methods of measuring poverty by asking people whether they lacked things which were described as necessities.
And so they asked households whether they lacked items because they couldn't afford them.
And if they lacked two or three or four of these necessities, they were defined as living in poverty.
That's happening already.
We've got a whole battery of poverty measures which are published every year in the Households Below Average Income statistics.
And I think the answer is that we do need to know what is happening on the basis of a variety of measures.
60% of the median has up to now been the headline measure, and I suspect it will continue to be the headline measure, but we also need to know what's happening to deprivation because of the problems of the 60% of median measure.
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