Relative poverty rates: entire population
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| Data type | Numeric |
| Scale | Metric |
| Value labels | not applicable |
| Technical name | socstr_repovratetpop_oecd |
| Category | Social structure |
| Label | Relative poverty rates: entire population |
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The "Relative poverty rates: entire population" a measure of relative poverty, refers to the proportion of individuals in a country whose income falls below the poverty line relative to the inmcome of the entire population in a country.
Coding rules
- The "poverty rate," a dimension of relative poverty, pertains to the prevalence of poverty, specifically the number of individuals in a country who live below the poverty line. This indicator is measured as a ratio of the population. Poverty lines are determined based on the overall population and are subsequently used to calculate poverty rates for specific subgroups (such as children and the elderly). While the poverty lines stay consistent within a given dataset, the subgroups can vary when calculating poverty rates. The poverty line is defined as half of the median household income of the entire population. The affected population is categorized into broad age groups: child poverty (ages 0-17), working-age poverty (ages 18-65), and elderly poverty (ages 66 and older). It's important to note that countries with similar poverty rates may have differences in the relative income levels of those living in poverty. Teorell et al. (2024: 354) define the variable as "Ratio of the number of people whose income falls below the poverty line, taken as half the median household income of the total population."
Bibliographic info
Citation:- Teorell, Jan, Aksel Sundström, Sören Holmberg, Bo Rothstein, Natalia Alvarado Pachon, Cem Mert Dalli, Rafael Lopez Valverde, and Paula Nilsson. 2024. The Quality of Government Standard [Dataset]. https://www.gu.se/en/quality-government. https://doi.org/10.18157/qogstdjan24.
- Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. 2023. Country statistical profiles: Key tables from OECD. https://doi.org/10.1787/20752288.
Related publications: Förster, Michael F., and Marco Mira D'Ercole. 2005. Income Distribution and Poverty in OECD Countries in the Second Half of the 1990s. Paris: OECD Publishing. OECD Social, Employment and Migration Working Papers, 22. https://doi.org/10.1787/882106484586.
Misc
Project manager(s): Responsible for data editing, description (WeSIS) and entry: Andrea Schäfer (2021-2025, Version 0.002), Jean-Yves Gerlitz (2018-2020; Version 0.001); Principal Investigator: Irene Dingeldey, Ulrich Mückenberger; Student assistants: Karolin Meyer (2018-2020)
Data release:- Version 0.001: Initial release with data from The Quality of Government Standard Dataset, version January 2019
- Version 0.002: Updated with data from The Quality of Government Standard Dataset, version January 2024
Revisions: No revisions yet
Sources
- Teorell, Jan, Stefan Dahlberg, Sören Holmberg, Bo Rothstein, Natalia Alvarado Pachon, and Richard Svensson. 2019. The Quality of Government Standard [Dataset]. http://www.qog.pol.gu.se. https://doi.org/10.18157/qogstdjan19.
- Teorell, Jan, Aksel Sundström, Sören Holmberg, Bo Rothstein, Natalia Alvarado Pachon, Cem Mert Dalli, Rafael Lopez Valverde, and Paula Nilsson. 2024. The Quality of Government Standard [Dataset]. https://www.gu.se/en/quality-government. https://doi.org/10.18157/qogstdjan24.
- Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. 2023. Country statistical profiles: Key tables from OECD. https://doi.org/10.1787/20752288.
