Data from household surveys have increasingly been used as a basis for social policy. They are generally inappropriate for obtaining information about the poorest, and therefore for policies concerned with tackling poverty and deprivation. They omit certain groups by design

Source: Roy Carr-Hill, Non-Household Populations: Implications for Measurements of Poverty Globally and in the UK, Journal of Social Policy, 44, pp 255-275.

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Date: 2015-Feb