SAMPLING DISTRIBUTIONS OF RELATIVE POVERTY STATISTICS

被引:28
作者
PRESTON, I [1 ]
机构
[1] INST FISCAL STUDIES,LONDON,ENGLAND
来源
APPLIED STATISTICS-JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL STATISTICAL SOCIETY SERIES C | 1995年 / 44卷 / 01期
关键词
LOW INCOME STATISTICS; POVERTY; QUANTILES; SAMPLING ERROR;
D O I
10.2307/2986197
中图分类号
O21 [概率论与数理统计]; C8 [统计学];
学科分类号
020208 ; 070103 ; 0714 ;
摘要
This paper considers the statistical reliability of poverty estimates widely used in the policy-making statistics community. It derives exact small and large sample distributions for proportions of a sample falling below given fractions of sample median income (or other sample quantiles) and uses the resulting formulae to assess statistical significance of changes in relative poverty in the UK over the 1980s.
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页码:91 / 99
页数:9
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