Commentary: the poverty measure.
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Family Characteristics↗
Biomedical subjects
M Orshansky
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Counting the poor: another look at the poverty profile. 1965.
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History, 20th Century↗
Born to be poor: birthplace and number of brothers and sisters as factors in adult poverty.
Household heads who grew up as members of large families and/or as natives of small towns or rural areas tend to have less education and are more likely to be poor than those coming from small families and/or large cities. Data to support these conclusions have been drawn from two independent sources--a special Social Security Administration supplement to the April 1968 Current Population Survey and findings from the Retirement History Study conducted by the Social Security Administration.
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