Consumption poverty in the Republic of Kosovo in 2010 (Английский)

This report focuses on absolute poverty, comparing living standards to a poverty threshold that is held fixed in real terms over time and space. The poverty line is updated over time to account for changes in prices. Household consumption is calculated... Подробнее + This report focuses on absolute poverty, comparing living standards to a poverty threshold that is held fixed in real terms over time and space. The poverty line is updated over time to account for changes in prices. Household consumption is calculated as the total value of a household's expenditure on food and nonfood items as recorded in the Household Budget Survey (a nationally representative survey conducted each year), including imputed values of any home-produced food items that were consumed by the household. In keeping with past practices in Kosovo, expenditures on consumer durable items and rent are excluded from the consumption measure. The actual value of household consumption depends on the size and demographic composition of the household. Therefore household consumption is divided by the number of adult equivalents in the household to arrive at the welfare measure, which is consumption per adult equivalent, expressed in Euros at 2010 prices (2009 prices for 2009 estimates). Two poverty lines are used in the analysis, a poverty line that is considered adequate to meet basic needs and an extreme poverty line. Both poverty lines are based on the poverty lines that were calculated for earlier poverty assessments (World Bank 2005). The two measures of consumption poverty used in this report are the poverty headcount ratio and the poverty gap. The poverty headcount ratio measures how many people are poor, and is simply the percentage of the population whose consumption per adult equivalent is less than the poverty line. The poverty gap measures not only how many people are poor, but also the depth of poverty among the poor, and therefore can detect changes in welfare that occur below the poverty line, such as households becoming less poor, but not enough to cross the poverty line.  Менее подробно –

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