UNCSD poverty indicators main content
The unemployment rate. UNCSD by definition, unemployment refers to all countries but not the work of education and income security and welfare depend on the survival of some people that the main cause of poverty, UNCSD unemployment rate is defined as the total labor force unemployed population ratio. The unemployed population is defined as the period of observation does not work (not including the time being to leave their posts, and unpaid workers), have the ability to work and desire that some people. The unemployment rate calculation does not include some special groups, such as the armed forces, nomads, students, have found jobs has not yet begun the work of groups such as apprentices. It is worth noting that some people, because of the special social system, although there is a full-time job, but still very poor.
Population poverty index. Referring to the living standards or economic well-being below the poverty line in the proportion of the population. Poverty line has the absolute poverty line and the relative poverty line of two, the former used for developing countries, which are commonly used in developed countries. UNCSD of 36 developed and developing countries, cross-country comparisons, really come up with the poverty line will increase as the economy improved, but in poor countries, which raise the relatively slower. Based on people's well-being of different understanding, economic well-being can be attributed to a person for goods and services consumption and nutrition intake of two definitions. Nutrition in developing countries access to the higher weight. Writing in the development of consumption measure than the measure of income is more prevalent because of changes in income volatility over time, particularly in the agricultural economy, the consumer income more than reflect the true situation.
Measure the standard of living of individuals, UNCSD that because of different family size and composition of its different, simply the whole family's total consumption is relatively easy for the family members of the welfare of misunderstanding. Therefore, UNCSD indicator system of measurement is based on the individual's standard of living for the base of male adults. In other words, for a given family, only male adults to investigate the family's consumption behavior, as adult women and children spending a relatively small and therefore assumed to be less than the consumption of adult men. This is not to say their low demand, but in the family's small force. The existence of economies of scale consumption also shows that two people living with a person less than the cost of living.
Limitations: the majority of developing countries is based on per capita consumption targets, while the developing countries generally larger family size, which may exaggerate the extent of poverty. In addition, the definition of personal welfare and the poverty line process, subjective judgments can not be avoided. In some countries, there is no definition of poverty. In addition, the definition of poverty between countries may be different, which affects the comparability of data.
Poverty gap index. Used to evaluate a country or region of the depth of poverty. Per capita poverty index below the poverty line, for some special policies reflect not sensitive to the poverty gap index was up for this deficiency. Below the poverty line with the poverty gap, poverty gap index will increase, the decline in the poverty gap index reflects the improvement of the status quo.
Poverty gap index is below the poverty line population from the average gap between the poverty line. Poverty gap index above the poverty line assumes that the poverty index value of 0. Calculating the poverty gap index calculated personal economic well-being, and to determine what level of benefits to be poor. The calculation of personal well-being There are many ways, there are generally two categories of great importance to the welfare of the individual judge, one of the benefits under the definition of an economist to calculate. The former focus on calculations of a group of consumer goods and services, the latter is calculated nutritional intake, even if people do not make a living or to food not only to nutrition to determine food consumption. Actual operation, according to ease of access to data and choose a different approach.
The majority of developing countries by calculating the per capita consumption to measure poverty, so the total measure of poverty must take note of comparability, which policy makers have very important significance. An increasingly popular method is to use a different poverty line measure of poverty, more consumer choice of whether there is a decisive impact on poverty.
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