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Summary of responses on multidimensional poverty

measurement (Eastern Europe, Caucasus and Central Asia)

UNECE

4 May 2015

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UNECE Questionnaire on Methods of Poverty Measurement in Official Statistics

11 replies

3 countries have multidimensional poverty measures

ArmeniaAzerbaijanBelarusGeorgiaRussian FederationKazakhstan

KyrgyzstanRepublic of MoldovaMongoliaUkraineUzbekistan

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Multidimensional poverty in EECCA countries Belarus

• Material deprivation rate Proportion of households which lack at least 4 out of 12 deprivations Annual, data from household living standards survey

Moldova

• Small Area Deprivation Index (SADI) Multiple Deprivation Index calculated for 843 rural communities (ranked according to income,

economic, geographic, demographic, health and education deprivations) Calculated every 2 years, data from administrative records, NBS and locally collected by the Ministry

of Economy

Ukraine

• Deprivation poverty Considers economic deprivation (i.e. lack of funds for necessary low-cost goods and services) and

deprivation by access (i.e. inadequate development of infrastructure as indication of geographical accessibility of services and barriers of non-geographic nature)

Poverty line: 4 or more deprivations among 18 Poverty by relative monetary criteria (expenditure) and deprivation also calculated

– Households with expenditure per capita <75% median expenditure + 4 deprivations out of 18 Calculated every 2 years, data from survey of households’ living conditions