Phipps, Shelley; Garner, Thesia I - In: Review of Income and Wealth 40 (1994) 1, pp. 1-17
This research uses microdata from the 1986 Statistics Canada Family Expenditure Survey and from the 1986-88 U.S. Consumer Expenditure Survey to estimate equivalence scales using a methodology that is very similar to that employed by Statistics Canada for the estimation of low-income cutoffs....