Nanlyza chudoby na slovensku zalozena na koncepte relativnej deprivacie
In: Politická ekonomie: teorie, modelování, aplikace, Band 58, Heft 4
ISSN: 0032-3233
It is always difficult to define the one & only measure of poverty, as there are different concepts of poverty based on a number of welfare indicators. The paper discuses main approaches to individual welfare measurement. A measure of individual welfare in the concept of relative deprivation is proposed. Three dimensions of relative deprivation are considered (economic strain, inability to afford certain items, & housing). The measure is based on multiplicative approach & thus is more sensitive to changes & differences in data than measures based on additive approach. The measure reflects the complex nature of households' relative deprivation & is applied to Slovak EU SILC 2005-2008 microdata in order to analyze the level of poverty in Slovakia in the concept of relative deprivation. Three different poverty lines are applied to the data & results are compared. Level of poverty in terms of relative deprivation is decreasing in Slovakia over time. Using the proposed approach, the results strongly depend on the number of components included in each dimension, as well as the components itself. In accordance with economic changes in the society, in the further research reappraisal of certain components could be a matter of discussion in order to reflect the present situation. Adapted from the source document.