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Subjektívna chudoba a jej štruktúra v Českej republike
Subjective Poverty and its Structure in the Czech Republic

Author(s): Petr Mareš, Ladislav Rabušic
Subject(s): Social Sciences
Published by: Sociologický ústav - Slovenská akadémia vied
Keywords: Subjective poverty; social policy; measuring

Summary/Abstract: Subjective Poverty And Its Structure In The Czech Republic. Poverty has become again a legitimate subject of social policy discussions in the Czech republic. These discussions have opened, as in other developed countries, problems of measuring poverty. In its first part, this article describes various possibilities of how poverty is usually defined and measured by foreign economists and sociologists. In the second part, it applies Leyden Subjective Poverty Line method and brings data on Czech subjective poverty. The structure of Czech subjective perception of poverty is finally compared with structures of subjective poverty in Sweden and Australia.

  • Issue Year: 1997
  • Issue No: 3
  • Page Range: 279-299
  • Page Count: 20
  • Language: English