Measuring living standards with proxy variables
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Measuring living standards with proxy variables.
Very few demographic surveys in developing countries have gathered information on household incomes or consumption expenditures. Researchers interested in living standards therefore have had little alternative but to rely on simple proxy indicators. The properties of these proxies have not been analyzed systematically. We ask what hypotheses can be tested using proxies, and compare these indica...
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عنوان ژورنال: Demography
سال: 2000
ISSN: 0070-3370,1533-7790
DOI: 10.2307/2648118