Progress report of the UNECE Task Force on subjective poverty measures, Thesia Garner (U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics)

Objective poverty measures alone are not sufficient to understand the complexity of poverty and that subjective measures can complement them in important ways, especially with regard to reaching the poorest and making their voice heard. Given this fact, during the 2019 Conference of European Statisticians Bureau meeting, subjective poverty measurement was selected as a topic for in-depth review (/ECE/CES/2019/14/Add.13). This was followed up by an in-depth review of subjective poverty measures which was presented before the Bureau of the Conference of European Statisticians (CES) in October 2021. This was largely based on a paper prepared by Statistics Poland summarizing survey responses from National Statistical Offices from 52 countries, with additional information regarding international activities. Reference is also made to another study which was conducted by the United Nations Development Programme of 15 countries/territory in Europe and Central Asia region. This study was conducted during the COVID-19 outbreak in 2020.