Systematic review
conceptions and strategies for measuring subjective poverty
Keywords:
Measurement, Poverty, Subjective dimension of poverty, Subjective povertyAbstract
Objective
The study analyzes the theoretical and practical perspectives that have been developed concerning the concepts and measurement strategies of subjective poverty.
Method
Thus, a systematic review was conducted, considering a temporal scope of ten years (2011-2021), on peer-reviewed articles in English, Portuguese, and Spanish. Following the analysis, the corpus consisted of 17 articles.
Results
It was identified that the concept of subjective poverty is affected by sociodemographic and analytical characteristics. This has an impact on different approaches, which can be more or less inclusive. The less inclusive ones are defined by exclusively monetary perspectives, while others consider the macrostructural issues of the analyzed realities: the effects of other socioeconomic markers and the psychosocial implications of poverty.
Conclusion
Thus, subjective poverty points out that, in the background of the subjects’ discourse, there are psychosocial intersections that impact their ways of life.
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