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SEUIL PAUVRETE RELATIVE [1 record]

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Record 1 2024-07-31

English

Subject field(s)
  • Economic Planning
  • Economic and Industrial Sociology
  • Social Problems
CONT

... relative poverty is defined by a poverty line contingent on the median income in that year. The most common relative poverty line used ... is equal to 60% of contemporaneous median income. This means that changes in relative poverty depend on how the incomes of low-income households change relative to middle-income households.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Planification économique
  • Sociologie économique et industrielle
  • Problèmes sociaux
CONT

Pour déterminer un seuil de pauvreté relative, la méthode la plus fréquente consiste à fixer celui-ci à une proportion de la moyenne arithmétique ou de la médiane de la distribution de la consommation ou du revenu.

Spanish

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