ST/ESA/STAT/POVERTY/WWW
1 February 2004
Handbook on Poverty Statistics:
Concepts, Methods
and Policy Use
Chapter 6. Poverty analysis for national policy use:
poverty profiles, mapping and dynamics
To answer questions such as - what are the characteristics of poor households,
who are poor and how to target them, how long does it take them to exit
poverty, is poverty transient or persistent; to provide guidance for the
analysis of the pattern and change in poverty - address issues related
to per capita measures such as, adult equivalence and scale economies;
to stress the importance of price indices - regional prices and "poverty-focused"
CPI, in particular, of having relevant, viz. operationally significant
measures of changes in the "cost of living" to parallel assessments
of poverty levels; to pay more attention to the wider longitudinal/panel
aspect of poverty profiling - lifetime income streams, position of children,
the sick and the aged, adequacy of savings, gender; To address the need
for gender perspective in poverty analysis; To discuss the use of combined
data sources for poverty assessments - merging household surveys and population
censuses to construct poverty maps.
(Analytical techniques presented throughout this chapter will be illustrated
by data examples from country cases such as to provide clear and practical
guidance to the reader.)
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