A Simple Poverty Scorecard for Pakistan
Center for Social Development, Washington University in St. Louis
(February 2006)
How poor are participants of development projects in Pakistan? This paper uses the 2001 Pakistan Integrated Household Survey to construct an easy-to-use, objective poverty scorecard that estimates the likelihood that a participant has expenditure below the national poverty line. The scorecard uses 10 simple indicators that field workers can quickly collect and verify. Scores can be computed by hand on paper in real time. With 90-percent confidence, estimates of groups’ overall poverty rates are accurate to within +/–1.1 percentage points. The poverty scorecard can help programs target services, track changes in poverty over time, and report on poverty rates.
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