SLIDE 29 CONCLUSIONS
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mation
ab about
incom ncomes es and and
ther so social cial and and dem emog
raphi hic charact characteri eristi tics cs of
Czech ho house useho holds
The data ata files les cont
alibrat bration
wei eigh ghts th that at can can signi significan cantl tly influence fluence the the resul esults of
realized zed an analyses
appears that the role of calibration changes with number of household members, grows with the growing incomes, etc. The paper focuses on the strength of influence of the calibration weight on the risk of monetary poverty in the Czech Republic. We
We had had sh shown wn that hat the the bias bias of
results results occurred
in all all cases cases (u (usuall ually highe higher valu alues) es) and and in in more
than an hal half
cases thi his cha hange nge was as statisti tatisticall ally signi significan cant (o (on the he 5% le level el). Thus hus, the he un unwei eight ghted ed resu esult lts ar are sli light htly dist storted ed; on
ly in in hal half of
cases the the bias bias is is stati atisti tical cally ly signi nifi ficant cant.
In order to create a complex insight on the problem of biasing the results of measuring the relative poverty by calibration weights, our analyses were based
- n the study of different definitions of consuming unit which handles the
monetary poverty from different perspectives. We
We sh shown wn th that the the choi choice ce of
scale ale can can suppres press or
mphasize hasize the the influen luence ce of
bration
ghts. An An impor
tant nt out
come is is the he inf nflu luence ence of
ming un unit defi efini nition on
the ri risk sk of
ty of
Czech ho househ usehol
And th there refor
the suitab suitable le definition tion of
consuming nsuming unit plays ys the the key role in in identi ntifyi ying ng of
ative pover erty ty in in soci
ty.
