Abstract
Shifting focus from income to capability signifies an important milestone toward accurately measuring poverty and deprivation. This paper operationalizes capability deprivation in the United States and compares measurement outcomes among various capability approaches and between capability and income spaces. Of the three capability approaches examined, the factor score absolute approach suggests a greater extent of deprivation and more comprehensive demographic profiles of the deprived. Additionally, I find that using the capability space may further attenuate the extent of deprivation over that using the income space and alter somewhat the stereotypical profiles of the poor and deprived.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 509-533 |
Number of pages | 25 |
Journal | Social Indicators Research |
Volume | 94 |
Issue number | 3 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Jan 2009 |
Externally published | Yes |
Keywords
- Capability deprivation
- Demographic profile
- General social survey
- Income poverty
- The United States
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Developmental and Educational Psychology
- Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous)
- Sociology and Political Science
- General Social Sciences