Noncash Benefits: Methodological Review of Experimental Valuation Methods Indicates Many Problems Remain : Report to Congressional Requesters |
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aData add to cash adjusted analysis Approach for Assessing Assessing New Valuation assigning medical Bureau's market value cash income Census Bureau's market Census Bureau's methods conceptual consumer expenditure survey consumer price index covered by Medicare current population survey definition of income Description of Alternative distribution effect elderly enrollees families headed food and housing food stamps full income stratification headed by women Hispanic household income imputation income definition issues market value method Measuring Poverty Medicaid values medical benefit value medical values Medicare and Medicaid methodological Methods for Valuing nation in 1984 noninstitutionalized medical Nonsharable normal expenditure values official poverty percent persons in families Persons younger poor poverty budget share poverty estimates poverty gaps poverty line poverty measurement poverty rate poverty threshold recipient value method reimbursement selectivity bias Technical Description Trimmed mean unsubsidized value of food Value of Noncash valuing noncash benefits well-being younger than 18
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Page 64 - ... good or service consumed by households with money income approximately equal to the poverty level. The value assigned by either of the latter two approaches is the lesser of (a) the value as determined by the approach being used, or (b) the "market value" approach. MARKET VALUE The market value (MV) of an in-kind transfer is equal to the private market value of the benefits received by the individual. In the case of food stamps, the market value is directly measurable as the dollar value of food...
Page 5 - ... systematic approach to assessing the methods was available. Therefore, we developed an assessment approach that can be applied to methods using income-based definitions of poverty. Our three-part evaluation approach calls first for the identification of specific concerns with a given method in terms of five questions: (1) What is the basis for defining income? (2) Are the methods valid? (3) Do the values that are assigned accurately represent the benefit levels received?
Page 5 - Do the values that are assigned accurately represent the benefit levels received? (4) What is the quality of the data and data analytic procedures used to derive benefit values? (5) Are definitions used consistently across key steps of poverty measurement? Second...
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