The use of the consensual approach for the improvement of existing multidimensional poverty data in Latin America: an illustration based on data from the City of Buenos Aires

This article aims at contributing to the current literature on poverty data limitations and measurement by discussing the process for producing the first multidimensional poverty measure based on the consensual approach for the City of Buenos Aires. The results show a remarkable level of consensus a...

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Published in:The journal of poverty and social justice : research, policy, practice policy, practice, 2023-02, Vol.31 (1), p.101-127
Main Authors: Beccaria, Luis, Fernández, Ana Laura, Nájera, Héctor
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Basic needs
Census of Population
Cities
Data
Deprivation
Households
Low income groups
Measurement
Poverty
Questionnaires
Sanitation
Social justice
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Summary:This article aims at contributing to the current literature on poverty data limitations and measurement by discussing the process for producing the first multidimensional poverty measure based on the consensual approach for the City of Buenos Aires. The results show a remarkable level of consensus about the necessities of life in the twenty-first century, underline the importance of generating more suitable indicators of deprivation and show that unmet basic needs-type variables are no longer adequate for measuring poverty in countries like Argentina. According to the valid and reliable poverty index, 20.3% of the city’s population live in households in multidimensionally poor households, this being the social dimension that shows the highest deprivation rate.
ISSN:1759-8273
1759-8281
DOI:10.1332/175982721X16644668262304