caa a22 4500 386395373 CHVBK 20180307112136.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e198907 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0047279400017621 doi S0047279400017621 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0047279400017621 Bradbury Bruce Family Size Equivalence Scales and Survey Evaluations of Income and Well-Being [Elektronische Daten] [Bruce Bradbury] The determination of the different needs of families of different compositions is necessary in order to ensure horizontal equity in tax/transfer policies. Despite the seeming simplicity of the problem, a consensus as to the appropriate means of determining relative need remains elusive. One approach which has been proposed has been to use social surveys to analyse the relationship between subjective evaluations of well-being and incomes. This paper examines such methods, and discusses the key assumptions upon which they rest. An explanation is advanced as to why these methods may lead to an understatement of the differences in relative needs of different family types. Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1989 Journal of Social Policy Cambridge University Press 18/3(1989-07), 383-408 0047-2794 18:3<383 1989 18 JSP https://doi.org/10.1017/S0047279400017621 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0047279400017621 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Bradbury Bruce NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Journal of Social Policy Cambridge University Press 18/3(1989-07), 383-408 0047-2794 18:3<383 1989 18 JSP CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge