According to the EU Regulation on European Statistics on Income and Living Conditions (EU-SILC), Italy will provide household gross income statistics starting from survey year 2007. Since in Italy both survey and fiscal data are used for the construction of the EU-SILC target variables, for the...

This study provides a step-by-step account of how fuzzy measures of non-monetary deprivation and also monetary poverty may be constructed based on survey data such as those from the Mozambican Household Budget Survey 2008-09 (IOF08). For nonmonetary deprivation, six dimensions are identified...

The traditional approach to poverty measurement utilises only monetary variables as indicators of individuals’ intensity of the state of deprivation, causing measurement errors of the phenomenon under investigation. Moreover, when adopted in a longitudinal context, this approach tends to...