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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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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.