Income Sufficiency, Expenditures and Subjective Poverty: Results from the United States and the Netherlands

In recent years there has been a renewed interest among social science researchers and policymakers concerning the definition, measurement, and incidence of poverty. With government agencies producing statistics for quite some time concerning the incidence of poverty and the characteristics of poor individuals and households, there have also been parallel activities to improve the identification and measurement of poverty. This has been particularly true within the United States (U.S.), countries in Europe, Canada and Australia.