2 Measuring Poverty Online Quiz Questions

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A cutoff tied to a defined minimum standard of basic needs

A cutoff defined in relation to the income distribution of a society

A cutoff based only on whether a household receives public benefits

It records each household member's control over resources directly.

It avoids the need to decide which goods or services to include.

It can reflect living standards over time and may be easier to measure than irregular earnings.

It captures every aspect of hardship without survey work.

It does not show how far below the line people fall.

It cannot report the share of people below a line.

By itself, it does not show how long hardship lasts.

It always reveals how resources are distributed within households.

They shape who is counted as poor and which patterns the statistics reveal.

They guarantee that poverty estimates are comparable across places and years.

They ensure that every important hardship is measured by income alone.

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Whether researchers use the exact same welfare measure in every study

Which welfare measure and poverty line researchers choose

Whether a poverty line has the same name in different places

Survey methods and timing when comparing places or years

Whether the poverty rate is expressed as a share

The official measure adjusts its thresholds for housing costs by geography, while the Supplemental Poverty Measure does not.

Both measures use the same resource definition and geographic threshold adjustments.

The official measure's thresholds do not vary geographically, while the Supplemental Poverty Measure adjusts thresholds for housing costs by geography.

The official measure counts noncash benefits and tax credits, while the Supplemental Poverty Measure excludes them.

Their poverty rates must have been calculated incorrectly.

People below the line may, on average, be farther below it in one place than in the other.

The places must have different proportions of people below the line.

One place must have used deprivation indicators instead of a poverty line.

Income, because irregular earnings are always easier to measure accurately than spending.

Consumption, because it can reflect living standards over time and may be easier to measure than irregular earnings.

A poverty rate, because it records the value of goods a household uses.

A relative poverty line, because it measures household spending directly.

They must have identical hardship because their shares below the line match.

One must have a higher poverty rate once differences in shortfall are considered.

They can have different poverty gaps because the rates do not reveal how far below the line people fall.

The poverty gap measures only the number of people above the line.

The official measure adjusts thresholds for housing costs by geography, while the Supplemental Poverty Measure does not.

The Supplemental Poverty Measure uses a broader resource definition and adjusts thresholds for housing costs by geography.

The official measure includes noncash benefits and tax credits, while the Supplemental Poverty Measure excludes them.

Both measures use the same resource definition and geographic thresholds.

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