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DATA IDENTIFICATION


Name
Poverty index (Income)
Indicator purpose

The purpose of this indicator is to provide an index designed to measure poverty via income status.

Abstract

This indicator provides an index designed to measure poverty disaggregated by income or per-capita consumption.

Data source

Statistical Institute of Belize (SIB)

DATA CHARACTERISTICS



Contact organization person

Statistical Institute of Belize (SIB)

Date last updated
29-OCT-2019
Periodicity

Annual

Unit of measure

Index (has a score between 0 to 1. Lowest score is 0 and highest score is 1)

Other characteristics

N/A

DATA CONCEPTS and CLASSIFICATIONS



Classification used

N/A

Disaggregation

Disaggregation is by sex, age and income or consumption levels.

Key statistical concepts

N/A

Formula
-
OTHER ASPECTS



Recommended uses

A proxy to help policy makers eradicate extreme poverty and hunger by directing their poverty alleviation resources to those closest to the poverty line.

Limitations

i. Consumption data are not always available.

ii. The measure of poverty obtained could still fail to capture important aspects of individual welfare.

Other comments

All the metadata was gathered from United Nation Statistics Division. The metadata was extracted from https://unstats.un.org/sdgs/metadata/.