| 词条 | Living Standards Measure |
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The Living Standards Measure or LSM is a marketing and research tool ( same as social economic class: SEC but more refine ) used in South Africa to classify standard of living and disposable income. It segments the population into ten deciles based on their relative means, with LSM 1 being the decile with the least means and 10 being the decile with the greatest means. It does this by ranking people based on ownership of the components of a standard basket of goods (which varies over time). For instance, those people who owned a television set would rank higher in the LSM than those who did not.[1] In effect, the LSM is an income inequality metric, despite specifically excluding income as one of the tested metric.[2] Its components are reflective of the fact that South Africa has a high Gini coefficient.[3] Current VariablesThe current (2015) basket of variables used to calculate LSM is{{Citation needed|reason=Need a single citation showing most up-to-date list|date=December 2016}}:
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References1. ^{{cite web|title=Living Standards Measure|url=http://www.saarf.co.za/lsm/lsms.asp|website=South African Audience Research Foundation|publisher=South African Audience Research Foundation|accessdate=20 December 2016}} {{SouthAfrica-stub}}2. ^{{cite magazine|first=Werner|last=Ruch|title=Measuring poverty in SA|magazine=The Fieldworker|publisher=Stats SA|date=July 2014|volume=5|url=http://www.statssa.gov.za/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Fieldworker-Low-Res-June-2014.pdf|accessdate=20 December 2016}} 3. ^{{cite web|title=South Africa Overview|url=http://www.worldbank.org/en/country/southafrica/overview|website=The World Bank|publisher=The World Bank|accessdate=20 December 2016}} 3 : Market segmentation|Standard of living|Income inequality metrics |
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