Szeles, Monica; Fusco, Alessio - In: Quality & Quantity: International Journal of Methodology 47 (2013) 3, pp. 1545-1560
Item response theory (IRT) has recently been proposed as a framework to measure deprivation. It allows a latent measure of deprivation to be derived from a set of dichotomous items indicating deprivation, and the determinants of deprivation to be analysed. We investigate further the use of IRT...