Perez-Mayo, Jesus - Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research … - 2003
This paper analyses the deprivation in Spain based on ECHP data for 1996. Usually, an indirect approach for measuring … deprivation or poverty is used with poverty lines. That is, income is used as a proxy for analysing living conditions. However …, some studies have used a direct approach to measure deprivation or poverty (Townsend 1988, Mayer and Jencks 1988, Muffels …