Paper (INSEE, France)

The project is the result of a partnership between ATD-Quart-Monde (ATD), the Secours Catholique (SCCF) and the French Statistical Office (Insee), conducted in 2022, with a view to better understand and measure great poverty and more specifically some hidden dimensions. The project is based on the active participation of people having an experience of poverty; it aims at identifying how the tools used by INSEE to measure poverty are consistent with the experiences of people that are actually living poverty day by day. Some local groups of people experiencing poverty have been formed, coordinated by animators from the associations with an approach that promotes trust and active participation of people. The project is punctuated by regular meetings of local groups and three plenary meetings with everyone. The project is divided in two phases : • phase 1 : build a base of knowledge and common benchmarks to define poverty. • phase 2 : specific work on two dimensions : “social isolation” and “institutional mistreatment”, with a view to identify common points and divergences between Insee tools and people’s experienc