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Article: Research from J.C. Streak and co-authors reveals new findings on social research.
- Article from:
- Politics & Government Week
- Article date:
- November 5, 2009
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"This paper offers evidence on the sensitivity of child poverty in South Africa to changes in the adult equivalence scale (AES) and updates the child poverty profile based on the Income and Expenditure Survey 2005/06. the poverty line at the 40th percentile of households calculated with different AESs the scope and composition of child poverty are found to be relatively insensitive to the scale used," investigators in Cape Town, South Africa report.
"The rankings of children of different ages, girls versus boys, racial groupings and children living in rural versus urban areas are unaffected by choice of AES, although some provincial rankings on the poverty ...