The current cost of living is pushing more people into poverty, with almost 68% of low income...
Necessities
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16/11/2011
Consensual method
The consensual or ‘perceived deprivation’ approach to measuring poverty follows the deprivation approach to measuring poverty by looking at direct measures of living standards rather than indirect income measures. But here, deprivation is seen in terms of an enforced lack of ‘necessities’ as determined by public opinion.
The 1983 Breadline Britain study pioneered this ‘consensual’ approach to measuring poverty by investigating, for the first time ever, the public’s perceptions of minimum needs:
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17/08/2011
European Union
There is considerable agreement across European Union member states as to what people regard as necessities, despite the cultural and economic differences. Explore the findings on a country by country basis.
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