Moving from the Household to the Individual: Multidimensional Poverty Analysis

Due to data limitations, current multidimensional measures of poverty use household rather than the individual as the unit of analysis. Household measures are unable to capture intrahousehold differences in resource allocation which differ along gender lines. This paper uses data from the Karnataka...

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Published inWorld development Vol. 59; pp. 70 - 81
Main Authors Vijaya, Ramya M., Lahoti, Rahul, Swaminathan, Hema
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Oxford Elsevier Ltd 01.07.2014
Pergamon Press Inc
Subjects
assets
deprivation
Gender
Gender differences
Households
India
Intrahousehold
Karnataka
multidimensional poverty
Poverty
Resource allocation
Studies
Karnataka India
India
deprivation
multidimensional poverty
Intrahousehold
assets
Karnataka
India
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Summary:Due to data limitations, current multidimensional measures of poverty use household rather than the individual as the unit of analysis. Household measures are unable to capture intrahousehold differences in resource allocation which differ along gender lines. This paper uses data from the Karnataka Household Asset Survey to construct an individual level multidimensional poverty measure for Karnataka, India. Our results show that individual level measures can identify substantial gender differences in poverty that are masked when using household measures. Thus, gender-disaggregated data and analysis can provide a useful complement to household level poverty measures.
ISSN:0305-750X
1873-5991
DOI:10.1016/j.worlddev.2014.01.029