Developing indicators: Issues in the use of quantitative data about poverty

Policy and Politics

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 431-440

  Spicker, Paul ^a  

^a ROBERT GORDON UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Indicators; Indices measurement; Poverty

Indexed keywords

MEASUREMENT METHOD; METHODOLOGY; POVERTY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SOCIOECONOMIC INDICATOR;

EID: 4744364525     PISSN: 03055736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1332/0305573042009499     Document Type: Article

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