Multidimensional Poverty Index

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    The Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) was developed in 2010 by Oxford Poverty & Human Development Initiative and the United Nations Development Programme.^[1]

  • The MPI was created for the 20th Anniversary edition of the UNDP Human Development Report and uses different factors to determine poverty beyond income-based lists. It uses a range of deprivations that afflict an individual's life

  • Indicators used

    The following ten indicators are used to calculated the MPI:^[4]

     
    • Education (each indicator is weighted equally at 1/6)
    • Years of Schooling: deprived if no household member has completed five years of schooling
    • Child Enrolment: deprived if any school-aged child is not attending school in years 1 to 8
    • Health (each indicator is weighted equally at 1/6)
    • Child mortality: deprived if any child has died in the family
    • Nutrition: deprived if any adult or child for whom there is nutritional information is malnourished
    • Standard of Living (each indicator is weighted equally at 1/18)
    • Electricity: deprived if the household has no electricity
    • Sanitation: deprived if they do not have an improved toilet or if their toilet is shared (MDG Definition)
    • Drinking water: deprived if the household does not have access to clean drinking water or clean water is more than 30 minutes walk from home (MDG Definition)
    • Floor: deprived if the household has dirt, sand or dung floor
    • Cooking fuel: deprived if they cook with wood, charcoal or dung
    • Assets: deprived if the household does not own more than one of: radio, TV, telephone, bike, or motorbike