Bag, S and Seth, S orcid.org/0000-0002-2591-6977 (2018) Does It Matter How We Assess Standard of Living? Evidence from Indian Slums Comparing Monetary and Multidimensional Approaches. Social Indicators Research, 140 (2). pp. 715-754. ISSN 0303-8300
Abstract
As part of Sustainable Development Goals, the United Nations have set targets of upgrading slums and reducing poverty in all its dimensions by 2030. Policies towards improving the living conditions of slum-dwellers require proper assessment of their standard of living as well as understanding the associated characteristics. In this paper, using slum-level primary household survey data from three largest Indian cities, we, first, assess the standard of living of slum dwellers using both monetary and non-monetary approaches and then explore how various household and spatial characteristics are consistently or differently associated with both forms of assessments. We use standard monetary indicators, but to assess non-monetary standard of living, use a counting approach framework and justify the selection of specific indicators in the context of slums. Our analysis yields some interesting observations as some characteristics are differently associated with monetary and non-monetary living standards, which should affect policy designs in slums.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2017, Springer Science+Business Media B.V. This is a post-peer-review, pre-copyedit version of an article published in Social Indicators Research. The final authenticated version is available online at: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11205-017-1786-y. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. |
Keywords: | Multidimensional counting approach; Slums in Indian metro cities; Monetary well-being; Regression analysis; Standard of living in slums |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Business (Leeds) > Economics Division (LUBS) (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 24 Oct 2017 15:12 |
Last Modified: | 16 Nov 2018 16:11 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Springer Nature |
Identification Number: | 10.1007/s11205-017-1786-y |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:122958 |