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Principal Investigator(s)

Park, Kyung Sook / Department of Sociology, Dong-a University

Producer(s)

The Institute for East Asian Studies, Dong-A University

Abstract

The「Survey on Poverty in Regional Areas」was conducted each year from 2004 to 2006 in the Gyeongnam area to investigate the characteristics and causes of increasing poverty following the 1997 financial crisis and to present a practical policy direction on poverty. This survey research deals with poverty on both economic and social levels and attempts to elucidate, through panel surveys on regional poverty and inequality and in depth interview surveys on the lives and basic needs of the disadvantaged class, the seriousness of experiencing economic, social, and cultural exclusion and the process in which such discrimination results in a culture of poverty and the lack of personal competence. The questionnaire is composed of topics including health conditions of the poor, family conditions, educational environment, financial status, employment status, state of regional welfare, attitude towards society, and social support. The questionnaire is also designed to study what behavior and psychological characteristics lead to continual poverty and how they are related to poor living conditions, why family becomes insecure in conditions of poverty, the characteristics of the poor class’s labor market, and how various experiences of deprivation experienced in the different spheres of life such as limited access to a welfare system and isolation from social relations are interrelated.

Keywords

Busan Metropolitan City Ulsan Metropolitan City Gyeongnam Yeongnam health care diseases health medical welfare family relations parent-child relationship marriage birth (pregnancy) child rearing child care education aged the aged employment labor income debt (liabilities) job training social welfare welfare recipients inequality social support network residential environment poverty panel survey panel data school life elderly care care of the aged care for the elderly self-sufficiency program self-sufficiency project basic livelihood security system class social stratification

Subjects

Poverty/ Welfare

Series

Survey on the Living Conditions of the Poor in Busan, Ulsan, and Gyeongnam Areas

Citation

Park, Kyung Sook. Survey on the Living Conditions of the Poor in Busan, Ulsan, and Gyeongnam Areas, 2006 : 3rd Wave [Dataset]. The Institute for East Asian Studies, Dong-A University [Producers]. Korea Social Science Data Archive (KOSSDA) [Distributors], 2008-01-14, https://doi.org/10.22687/KOSSDA-A1-2006-0002-V1.0.

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