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Abigail Davis
Abigail
Davis
Donald Hirsch
Donald
Hirsch
Matt Padley
Matt
Padley
The minimum income standard as a benchmark of a 'participatory social minimum'
Loughborough University
2017
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Language, Communication and Culture not elsewhere classified
Studies in Human Society not elsewhere classified
2017-09-28 08:44:25
Journal contribution
https://repository.lboro.ac.uk/articles/journal_contribution/The_minimum_income_standard_as_a_benchmark_of_a_participatory_social_minimum_/9474227
The Minimum Income Standard (MIS), a method for constructing minimum household budgets based on public consensus, helps to operationalise Townsend's concept of a 'participatory social minimum'. Since 2008 MIS has tracked changes in the contents and cost of minimum baskets of goods and services. The article reflects on aspects of this research: the living standard that MIS represents, how consensus is reached and its record of providing consistent results over time. Understanding these features allows policy makers, practitioners and analysts to use the results of MIS appropriately, alongside other research, to benchmark the success of measures to promote adequate incomes.