Hungary Amends Poverty Stat After Criticism Over Skewed Data

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The picture is clearer after a revision – and even fewer people live in poverty. Here are the results of the revision of the Hungarian Central Statistical Office's poverty data.

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The Central Statistical Office has admitted that for years it inaccurately reported poverty data in Hungary, which showed a more favorable picture than the real one. According to the corrected figures, the relative poverty rate is higher than what was previously published.

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Válasz Online reported in April this year that something was wrong with the income poverty indicators of the Central Statistical Office (KSH). Two researchers found outliers just above the poverty threshold. In June, we also found the reason for the phenomenon: it was as if the tax office had not collected the tax, but had paid half of the pensioners in the sample – exactly enough to bring them above the threshold. At the time, the KSH called ou…

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A serious crisis of confidence regarding the entire data provision of the Central Statistical Office, the reliability of the Central Statistical Office, arose in the spring, when it was revealed that the poverty data in Hungary going back years were very strange. As several researchers have pointed out: the poverty data published by the Central Statistical Office have been coming out for years in such a way that instead of the usual distribution…

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The picture is clearer after a revision – and even fewer people live in poverty. Here are the results of the revision of the KSH poverty data.