Monitoring trends in poverty and income distribution: Data, methodology and measurement

Economic Record

Volumn 82, Issue 258, 2006, Pages 341-364

  Saunders, Peter ^a   Bradbury, Bruce ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INCOME DISTRIBUTION; MEASUREMENT METHOD; METHODOLOGY; POVERTY; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL DATA;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA;

EID: 33746683166     PISSN: 00130249     EISSN: 14754932     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-4932.2006.00344.x     Document Type: Review

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