The measurement of poverty: A review of attempts to quantify the poor, with special reference to India

Poverty can be measured relatively, but measuring absolute poverty is more convenient for cross-cultural comparison. Unfortunately, it is difficult to measure absolute poverty. Because individuals and individuals have differences within the minimum demand range. Thus, simple assessment methods and confusion show many estimates of the vast majority of poverty in low-developed countries. In this article we will use the Indian material as an example to track the progress of this method, explain how much poverty estimate will appear, and preliminary on the degree and pattern of absolute poverty in India today We will draw conclusions.

This article was first presented at the Agricultural Nutrition Symposium held at Haryana Agricultural University in India in April 1982. Thank you very much for Philippe Payne, Barbara Harris, Elizabeth Doyle, and anonymous referees for valuable comments and criticisms. Any mistakes are still mine

To measure economic poverty, we need a threshold (ie route) to distinguish between the poor and the non-poor and to check people's income and consumption levels according to the threshold. Type of data used (income compared to expenditure), composition of basic demand basket, analysis unit (individual and family and household), and reference decision. To be useful, the poverty line should be internally consistent, widely accepted, and easy to implement.

There is no official poverty countermeasure in New Zealand. But you can use low income standards or poverty lines. The 'fixed line' index is fixed with reference to the annual poverty line and is then adjusted for each survey based on the consumer price index. A Move Line or Relative measure sets a poverty line as a ratio to the median income. According to fixed indicators adjusted for housing costs (60% of average income), 15% of the population in 2010 lived in the same poverty as in 2009. This led to a decline in the poverty rate that began in 1994. The poverty rate of children is 22%, which has decreased significantly from 2001 to 2007 from 2007 to 2010. According to MSD, this is due to employment, income related rent and improvement of WFF. In 2010, New Zealand's elderly people (7%) showed a lower poverty rate than any other age group (13% for aged 25 to 64 and 22% for dependent children).

Poverty can be measured relatively, but measuring absolute poverty is more convenient for cross-cultural comparison. Unfortunately, it is difficult to measure absolute poverty. Because individuals and individuals have differences within the minimum demand range. Thus, simple assessment methods and confusion show many estimates of the vast majority of poverty in low-developed countries. In this article we will use the Indian material as an example to track the progress of this method, explain how much poverty estimate will appear, and preliminary on the degree and pattern of absolute poverty in India today We will draw conclusions.

Scale of poverty: Review of attempts to quantify the poor, especially India