Monitoring Poverty Trends: Results from the 1998 Living in Ireland Survey. ESRI WP132. September 2000

Layte, Richard and Nolan, Brian and Watson, Dorothy and Williams, James and Casey, Barra (2000) Monitoring Poverty Trends: Results from the 1998 Living in Ireland Survey. ESRI WP132. September 2000. [Working Paper]

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Abstract

Monitoring the evolution of poverty and assessing progress towards achieving the stated targets is of central importance to the National Anti Poverty Strategy (NAPS). Last year, the ESRI carried out a study for the NAPS Inter-Departmental Policy Committee (Callan et al. 1999) based on results from the 1997 round of the Living in Ireland household survey. The present report for the Inter-Departmental Policy Committee now provides an updated picture using results from the 1998 round of that survey. The primary aim is to use this 1998 data to assess how the overall extent of poverty and the profile of those in poverty has changed vis-à-vis the picture presented for 1997 in Callan et al. (1999). This analysis of 1998 forms part of a broader study which will also take advantage of the panel nature of the data to look at transitions into and out of poverty from one year to the next over the period from 1994 to 1998.

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