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Digitalization and the data revolution open up new possibilities for monitoring poverty, which can complement established indicators derived from national surveys in important ways.
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The use of linked register data plays a key role to be able to monitor poverty on subnational levels. This is essential to be able to identify where poor people live and to formulate targeted policies.
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The BFH-Swiss poverty monitor proposes to use a set of different poverty indicators that shed light on poverty from different perspectives. Multiperspective poverty measurement is essential to capture different forms of poverty.
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The BFH-Swiss poverty monitor proposes to implement an indicator of non-take-up of social assistance to capture those that fall below the poverty line but are not reached by the welfare system.
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The BFH-Swiss poverty monitor proposes to use a p20-indicator that focuses on the financial situation of the 20 percent poorest of a region compared to average and top incomes. In this perspective low income is viewed through the lens of inequality.