Measuring child benefits: Measuring child poverty
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Introduction 1 Adequacy and the Anti-Poverty Objective of Child Benefits 3 Poverty and the role of child benefits 3 Which costs are included within an adequate child benefit? 7 Vertical and horizontal equity 8 Defining a just-above-poverty-level standard of living 9 Methodologies for Measuring Adequacy 20 Expenditure-based strategies 20 Alternative survey-based methodologies 29 Deprivation index-based poverty lines 31 Budget cost strategies 33 The Market Basket Measure 37 Critical Issues in the Use of the Market Basket Measure to Estimate an Adequate Child Benefit 41 Equivalence scales 41 Averaging 46 Including shelter costs in the Canada Child Tax Benefit 50 Variation in shelter cost 52 Recognizing detailed family structure 56 Housing policy 57 Conclusion 60 Endnotes 63 References 63 Appendix 1: Value of the Canada Child Tax Benefit projected to 2007 66 Appendix 2: Living standard assumptions of items included in the Market Basket Measure 68
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