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Many people believe that everyone in society should be able to achieve a minimum level of material welfare. People whose material welfare is below this minimum level are regarded as poor. Two standard measures are used to measure poverty in our society: the risk of poverty and material deprivation.
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In this book, the term “migrants” refers to people who were not born in Belgium.
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According to the Oxford equivalence scale, the first adult counts for 1, all other members of the family aged 14 years or above count for 0.7 and all children below the age of 14 count for 0.5.
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Capéau, B. et al. (2020). Who Is Poor in Our Society?. In: Well-being in Belgium. Economic Studies in Inequality, Social Exclusion and Well-Being. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-58509-9_5
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