Analyzing individual deprivations alongside houshold poverty: possibilities for gendered, intrahousehold, and multidimensional analyses

Working paper

Most poverty measures identify a household as poor based on achievements of all its members, hence gendered and intrahousehold inequalities are not illuminated even when data for individual household members exist. This paper provides a framework for jointly analysing individual deprivations alongside poverty status and composition, to illuminate gendered and intrahousehold disparities and intergenerational patterns. The illustration applies the methodology to multidimensional poverty in seven countries in South Asia and monetary poverty in Pakistan. The paper thus prototypes a general methodology that can be incorporated into standard poverty reporting to shine a light jointly on individual deprivations and household poverty.

Authors: Alkire, S; ul Haq, R

• Publication status: Published
• Publisher: Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative
• Host title: OPHI Research in Progress
• Pages: 1-31
• Series: OPHI Research in Progress
• Publication date: 2023-07-31
• Paper number: 65a
• Language: English
• Keywords: intrahousehold inequality; child poverty; multidimensional poverty measurement; intergenerational mobility; gender; nutrition; poverty measurement; education; South Asia