Proposal for new multidimensional and fuzzy measures of poverty and inequality at national and regional level
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This paper provides a step-by-step account of how fuzzy measures of monetary poverty and nonmonetary deprivation may be constructed based on survey data such as from EU-SILC. For non-monetary deprivation, meaning dimensions or groupings of initial items of deprivation are identified using explanatory and confirmatory factor analyses, and a weighting system is applied for the aggregation individual items into the dimension they represent. Some numerical results for EU countries are given using EU-SILC 2007 data.
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