Identifying Fuel Poverty Using Objective and Subjective Measures

Identifying Fuel Poverty Using Objective and Subjective Measures

The UK Government is committed to abolishing fuel poverty amongst vulnerable households by the year 2010 and in the general population by 2016, but definition and measurement of fuel poverty remains controversial. We define a new measure of subjective household experience and explore links between this measure and the official objective definition, using a unique data set and the Family Expendi...

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Objective and Subjective Measures of Poverty in the European Community Household Panel

In most poverty studies a person is defined as poor if he or she lacks enough resources to reach an acceptable standard of living. Usually the analysis is also restricted to economic deprivation and misery. However, even if most researchers seem to agree on this general definition, there has been a lot of discussion about the best approach to measure poverty. Thus, during recent years there hav...

A methodology for identifying interesting association rules by combining objective and subjective measures

Evaluation measures, objective and subjective, are used to assist users in finding interesting association rules. Objective measures are more general, but they can be insufficient because they do not consider user’s and domain features. However, getting user’s knowledge and interest needed to calculate subjective measures can be a difficult task. Thus, this work presents a methodology to identi...

Website Complexity: Objective versus Subjective Measures

Site complexity has been defined both as a single construct and as multi-dimension construct and operationalized in terms of objective measures or user perceptions. In this research, we distinguish between objective and subjective (perceived) site complexity and examine the relationship between the two. Objective site complexity is measured by how varied a website is; subjective site complexity...