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Invited Session
Joint Statistical Meetings
August 2005, Minneapolis, Minnesota
SESSION TITLE: Measuring Poverty: New Developments
ORGANIZERS: Susan Schechter, Office of Management and Budget, and Kathleen Short, U.S. Census Bureau
Session Abstract: In the spring of 1995, the National Academy of Sciences Panel on Poverty and Family Assistance released a report with recommendations on revision of the official measure of poverty. Led by an interagency committee chaired by the Office of Management and Budget, the Census Bureau developed an array of experimental poverty measures described in detail in two reports. A follow-up NAS workshop in June 2004 reviewed the measurement options and attempted to identify a consensus of opinion on the "preferred" components of a revised poverty measure. Papers will discuss implications of these choices, an assessment of both the measurement issues and the needs for further research.
CHAIR: Katherine K. Wallman, OMB
SPEAKERS
NAS Workshop Summary Report [PDF]
John Iceland
Department of Sociology
University of Maryland
Developing Poverty Thresholds [PDF]
Thesia I. Garner
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Estimating Family Resources for Poverty Measurement [PDF]
Valuing Housing in Measures of Household and Family Economic Well-Being [PDF]
Kathleen Short
U.S. Census Bureau
Measuring Poverty:
New Work, Old Politics [PDF]
Timothy M. Smeeding
Maxwell Professor of Public Policy and Associate Dean for Sponsored Research
Director, Center for Policy Research and Luxembourg Income Study (LIS)
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