The poor, the deprived, the excluded – how to measure peoples’ misfortunes
The poor, the deprived, the excluded – how to measure peoples’ misfortunes

Summary/Abstract: The paper presents an attempt of formal analysis of such phenomena as poverty, deprivation and social exclusion, beginning from their definitions, through interrelations, stepping towards measurement. Both definitions and methods of measurement were based on the concept of fuzzy set methodology. The empirical study was carried out in voivodships in Poland, where the level of poverty, deprivation and social exclusion was estimated. As a result, fuzzy rankings of voivodships were constructed, and significantly different levels of synthetic variables were shown on maps. The paper shows that fuzzy approach to social problems deriving from poverty allows for open analysis, where relative aspects of these terms can be taken into account.

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