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Task Force on subjective poverty measures

Contact person: Ms. Vania Etropolska

Objective

The objective of the Task Force is to develop a guide on measuring subjective poverty, including a set of subjective poverty indicators that could be used for international comparison.

Planned outputs

The Task Force will analyse national practices and international research in producing and communicating subjective poverty measures, including the following aspects:

  • Concepts and frameworks related to the measurement of subjective poverty and delineating its role in relation to objective measures of monetary and multidimensional poverty;
  • Methods of data collection on subjective assessment of living standards;
  • Indicators of subjective poverty;
  • Overlaps and mismatches between measures of subjective, multidimensional, and monetary poverty – how multiple measures can work together?
  • Measurement of emerging aspects and forms of subjective poverty resulting from recent developments in the society, such as the Covid pandemic;
  • Communicating statistics on subjective poverty.

 

The analysis of national practices and international research should lead to the following results:

  • Evaluation of the different approaches in measuring subjective aspects for poverty analysis;
  • Evaluation of the value that subjective indicators of poverty add to multidimensional and monetary analysis;
  • Identification of good practices in the production, analysis and dissemination of subjective poverty measures;
  • Recommendations to national statistical offices for the production, analysis and dissemination of subjective poverty measures.

The consolidated output of the Task Force’s work will be a guide on measuring subjective poverty, consisting of all the results described above: evaluation of approaches, identified good practices, list of indicators with related methodological guidance, recommendations to national statistical offices.

Terms of reference (2022-2024)

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