vcrpart (version 0.2-1)

poverty: Poverty in Switzerland

Description

Poverty measurements of elderly people (older than the Swiss legal retirement age) in Switzerland. The data are the (complete) subsample of participants of the canton Valais of the Vivre-Leben-Vivere (VLV) survey data.

Usage

data(poverty)

source

VLV survey, see also http://cigev.unige.ch/recherches/vlv.html

Details

Poverty is defined by a threshold of 2400 Swiss francs per person in the household. Specifically, the poverty variable was retrieved from a self-rated ordinal variable with nine categories on household income and was adjusted by the OECD equivalence scales methodology (see http://www.oecd.org/eco/growth/OECD-Note-EquivalenceScales.pdf) to account for the household size.

The variables Canton, Gender and AgeGroup represent the stratification variables of the survey design.

The data include a significant number of missings, in particular for Poor and RetirTiming. The authors are grateful to Rainer Gabriel, Michel Oris and the Centre interfacultaire de gerontologie et d'etudes des vulnerabilites (CIGEV) at the University of Geneva for providing the prepared data set.

References

Ludwig, C., Cavalli, S. and Oris, M. Vivre/Leben/Vivere: An interdisciplinary survey addressing progress and inequalities of ageing over the past 30 years in Switzerland. Archives of Gerontology and Geriatrics. Gabriel, R., Oris, M. Studer, M. and Baeriswyl, M. The persistance of social stratification? Submitted.