Diss. Göteborg : Göteborgs universitet, 2006. / Härtill 4 uppsatser.

Thesis (doctoral)--Göttingen University, 2007. / Includes bibliographical references (p. [135]-139).

We take advantage of the fact that for the Austrian SILC 2008-2011, two data sources are available in parallel for the same households: register-based and survey-based income data. Thus, we aim to explain which households tend to under- or over-report their household income by estimating multinomial logit and OLS models with covariates referring to the interview situation, employment status and socio-demographic household characteristics. Furthermore, we analyze source-specific differences in the distribution of household income and how these differences affect aggregate poverty indicators based on household income. The analysis reveals an increase in the cross-sectional poverty rates for 2008-2011 and the longitudinal poverty rate if register data rather than survey data are used. These changes in the poverty rate are mainly driven by differences in employment income rather than sampling weights and other income components. Regression results show a pattern of mean-reverting errors when comparing household income between the two data sources. Furthermore, differences between data sources for both under-reporting and over-reporting slightly decrease with the number of panel waves in which a household participated. Among the other variables analyzed that are related to the interview situation (mode, proxy, interview month), only the number of proxy interviews was (weakly) positively correlated with the difference between data sources, although this outcome was not robust over different model specifications.

Assignment (MComm)--University of Stellenbosch, 2007. / Bibliography. Also available via the Internet.

Bibliographical references (p. 80-93). / "February 2002". Includes bibliographical references (p.80-93). Also available online via the World Wide Web ; System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Princeton University, 2000. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 158-159).

Living in poverty and persistent low income has detrimental impacts on many facets of the lives of parents and children. During the early years of the new millennium this was of primary concern to the Scottish and UK governments: in response, policies were implemented to improve children's developmental outcomes, and to increase both maternal employment and levels of income for low paid and unemployed families. Previous qualitative research on families living in poverty revealed that families have varying degrees of additional vulnerability depending on their levels of social assets, e.g. social support, and financial vulnerabilities, e.g. debt and financial stress. High levels of social assets appeared to attenuate, and low levels of social assets appeared to exacerbate, the negative impacts of living in poverty. These social and financial assets/vulnerabilities comprise two of the five domains of the Sustainable Livelihoods Approach (SLA) quantified for use in this thesis. This thesis explores what impacts, if any, social and financial assets/vulnerabilities have on children's cognitive (C) development, as measured by naming vocabulary and picture similarities, and on their social, emotional and behavioural (SEB) development as measured by the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire. To achieve this aim this research uses the first five sweeps of the annually-collected longitudinal Growing up in Scotland (GUS) birth cohort study. The analysis uses the technique of factor analysis to derive the latent constructs financial and social assets/vulnerabilities, and OLS multiple regression analysis with quasi-variance to test the associations. The research employs multiple dimensions of economic disadvantage - longitudinal income poverty, material deprivation, longitudinal income poverty and material deprivation combined, and longitudinal income inequality - to explore the effects, not only between the lengths of time people have lived in poverty, but also across the income inequality spectrum, i.e. persistent low income versus persistent high income. The results of the research show that high maternal social assets and financial vulnerabilities separately are associated with higher and lower levels of child SEB development respectively, especially for children living in persistent low income. The relationship did not hold for children’s cognitive development. It also reveals that children whose mothers are experiencing additional financial stress and debt have lower CSEB scores (but not picture similarities), especially in relation to SEB development. There is also a relationship between social and financial assets/vulnerabilities: having high social assets is statistically associated with lower financial stress and debt for those living with lower incomes. This thesis argues that mothers, families and children living in poverty would benefit from policy and practice interventions that support geographical proximity of family and friends, that foster close and supportive wider family relationships, and that promote access to credit that does not lead to unmanageable debt and detrimental levels of additional financial stress. The research notes that while the SLA has been a useful theoretical framework, effectively quantified, the GUS data are limited in how effectively it can construct the SLA as it is not dedicated to its measurement.

Thesis (M. Soc. Sc.)--University of Hong Kong, 1984. / Photocopy of tyepscript.

Thesis (M.Soc.Sc.)--University of Hong Kong, 1984. / Also available in print.

Submitted by Maike Costa (maiksebas@gmail.com) on 2016-02-02T11:32:30Z No. of bitstreams: 1 arquivototal.pdf: 1406166 bytes, checksum: 2c0643799063aec30bae0e1c63420ff9 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-02-02T11:32:30Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 arquivototal.pdf: 1406166 bytes, checksum: 2c0643799063aec30bae0e1c63420ff9 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2015-05-22 / Conselho Nacional de Pesquisa e Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico - CNPq / The BolsaFamília Program is currently the main strategy used to coping to poverty through monetary income. After program execution nationwide, conducted research has demonstrated the growth of consumption access and to basic social rights such as health, education, feeding and social assistance. The discussion on poverty, expressed in many types of vulnerabilities and dependency on state policies, for much of the population, it is still a challenge for scholars and planners. This dissertational work aims to understand, through literature and involved themselves - the beneficiaries - whether that program provided or propitiates, in fact, social inclusion and autonomy. The first expression, Social Inclusion, made up of Sposati (1996) which links the social minimum established a basic pattern that includes both dignity and citizenship ideas. Regarding autonomy, evidence of the study Pinzani and Rego (2013), who argue that it is the perception of themselves as subjects able to make free choices. It is, therefore, a field research that has privileged qualitative aspects, in which, considered to define the subjects, they should have the minimum time of five years as the beneficiary. It was found that the guaranteed rights and the services available in the Social Assistance Policy are still little known to its users, becoming a challenge to be analyzed by professionals and researchers. Therefore, that social inclusion is expressed through the guarantee of monthly deposit that opens up access to the consumption while the autonomy is characterized by the possibility of acquiring goods aimed for survival, especially access to food and clothing aspects up then absent in the trajectory of these social subjects. / O Programa Bolsa Famíliaé, atualmente, a principal estratégia utilizada para o enfrentamento à pobrezaatravés de renda monetária. Após a execução do programa em todo território nacional, pesquisas realizadas tem demonstrado o crescimento do acesso ao consumo e aos direitos sociais básicos como saúde, educação, alimentação e assistência social. Adiscussão sobre pobreza, expressa em diversos tipos de vulnerabilidadese a dependência de políticas do Estado, por grande parte da população, ainda é um desafio para estudiosos e pesquisadores. Este trabalho dissertativo busca compreender, através da literatura e dos próprios envolvidos - os beneficiários - se o referido programa propiciou ou propicia, de fato, Inclusão Social e Autonomia. A primeira expressão, Inclusão Social, tomou-se de Sposati (1996) a qual associa a mínimos sociais estabelecidos de um padrão básico que contemple ideias de dignidade e cidadania. Em relação à autonomia, evidenciou-se o estudo de Rego e Pinzani (2013), os quais defendem que é a percepção de si como sujeito capaz de fazer escolhas livres. A pesquisa valeu-se de um formulário com questões mais específicas sobre o tema, aplicados em João Pessoa, território de maior concentração de famílias beneficiárias. Trata-se, portanto, de uma pesquisa de campo que privilegiou aspectos qualitativos, na qual, considerou-se para definir os sujeitos, que eles deveriam ter o tempo mínimo de cinco anos como beneficiário, tendo em vista a existência do programa que em 2014 completou 10 anos (2004-2014). Verificou-se que os direitos garantidos e os serviços disponibilizados na Política de Assistência Social ainda são pouco conhecidos por seus usuários, tornando-se um questionamentoa ser analisado por profissionais e pesquisadores. Portanto, a referida Inclusão Social se expressa através da garantia do depósito mensal que viabiliza o acesso ao consumo, enquanto que a Autonomia caracteriza-se pela possibilidade de aquisição de bens voltados para a sobrevivência, sobretudo, o acesso à alimentação e vestuário, aspectos até entãoausentes na trajetória desses sujeitos sociais.