Sentence examples for equivalence scale from inspiring English sources

In order to account for different household compositions, household income is transformed into equivalent income, by using the square root equivalence scale (OECD 2006); the equivalent income is then divided by the PPP (purchasing power parity) index provided in SHARE, which adjusts for different purchasing power across countries.

As the ages of household members were not available consistently across all studies, it was not possible to calculate the equivalent income according to the OECD equivalence scale.

The equivalence scale used to construct the adult equivalent consumption expenditure in this paper is similar to that used by Appleton and colleagues [ 21].

This includes the household size by adult equivalent, which is generated following the OECD-modified equivalence scale (Hagenaars et al. 1994).

The scale used is called the OECD modified scale and is the standard equivalence scale for Eurostat, the Department for Work and Pensions and the Office for National Statistics.

Household size is calculated following the OECD-modified equivalence scale (Hagenaars et al. [1994]).

Income was converted to 'household equivalent income' using the modified Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Dequivalence(OECD) equivalence scales which apply a scale of 1 to the first adult in a household, 0.5 to the second and later adults, and 0.3 to children [ 35].

Adult equivalence scales were also provided by the MPD [32].

I prefer to follow Rojas (2007) as his definition is concave in the number of people, while the official equivalence scales are not.

Using the official Mexican equivalence scales based on CONEVAL (2008) gives essentially the same results where only the third digit after the comma changes by at most two units.

In particular, the equivalence scales applied to cash income are not necessarily appropriate when including non-cash income, because the receipt of public services is likely to be associated with particular needs.