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KMID : 1001320140410020001
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Social Welfare Policy
2014 Volume.41 No. 2 p.1 ~ p.25
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Multidimensional Poverty in Korea: Utilizing a Latent Class Analysis
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Lee Hyon-Joo
Joung Eun-Hee
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Abstract
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This study examined the characteristics and the size of the poor group by utilizing a latent class analysis model. Many scholars have acknowledged the limitations of income poverty measure and have suggested using multidimensional poverty as an alternative poverty measure. This study try to share same orientation and explore a new method that help us understand the reality of the poor in Korea. The poor may not be one single homogeneous group. Results show that there are three different types of the poverty group in Korea. The first poverty group is composed of people who are weak at work ability and pay high medical costs. The second group is characterized by unstable employment status, though has physical ability to work. Further, the poor in this second group, have experience of deprivation in most of living area such as housing, credit accounts, and education. The third group has a job but pays high housing costs. Research findings are discussed and policy implications also are suggested in this paper.
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KEYWORD
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Poverty, multidimensional poverty, latent class analysis
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