
Can you convert household-level poverty likelihoods to person-level
Maneet Kaur
• Berkeley Air Monitoring Group
• USA
• 02/19/14
• 1 Comment
The Rwanda poverty scorecard is calibrated and validated to household-level poverty likelihoods. It is possible to convert this to person-level or does a new scorecard need to be developed to do so?
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Frank Ballard says (02/19/2014):
You can estimate person-level poverty rates by taking a household-size-weighted average of the household-level poverty likelihoods. To do so, follow these steps:
1. Multiply each household poverty likelihood by the number of household members.
2. Add all products from step 1.
3. Divide by the total number of individuals in question.
Figure 2 in the Design Documentation reports poverty rates and poverty lines for Rwanda at both the household-level and the person-level for its provinces (Kigali, Southern, Western, Northern, and Eastern) and for Rwanda as a whole.
For more information, see Section 2.2.1 of Rwanda's Design Documentation.
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