Qualitative analysis of the newly impoverished families in the Republic of Macedonia

Апстракт

The years-long poverty measurements by applying the relative and
subjective method have enabled identification of the basic poverty
profiles.
The poverty measurement and observation by the double method
and using the information on the basic structures of state benefits users
have enabled identification of three basic groups of poor families:
traditionally poor, newly impoverished families and chronically poor
families.
The aim of this work is to examine, describe and explain the newly
impoverished families, using the data obtained from the qualitative
measurements.
It also gives an answer why the qualitative approach was applied in
the measuring of this phenomenon.
Newly impoverished families are those that have felt the dynamic
decline of the living standard during the transition period (households
without a single employed member, households with employed members
who do not get salaries on time, households having more members).
Various data sources have been used in the analysis: natural
environment observation, an interview (individual and group), and various
types of written documents. Without any additional interventions of the
researcher, information given by the media were used, conversations of
citizens and politicians were carefully listened to for this problem. These families had difficulties adjusting to the newly emerged
situation. They mostly try to find a way out of this situation in the grey
economy. The reproductive situation of the second generation of poor
from this kind of families is evident.
The generalizations made for the researched problem, the newly
impoverished families, arise mostly from the research elaborated with
detailed information for 20 families (newly impoverished) followed
through a 10-year period.