Afghanistan
The Progress out of Poverty Index® (PPI®) for Afghanistan is an easy-to-use, objective client poverty assessment tool. The PPI estimates the likelihood that a household has income below a national or international poverty line (download the PPI At-A-Glance for a list of poverty lines and rates for Afghanistan).
The PPI scorecard uses simple non-financial indicators that are easy to collect accurately. This means field personnel can quickly capture and verify the indicators at the point of collection. After PPI scorecard information is collected, a “lookup table” is used to associate scores with poverty likelihoods and aggregate poverty level results. The PPI allows programs to: target services to poorer clients, calculate poverty levels of current clients, track changes in poverty levels over time and better focus market research.
Indicators in the PPI are based on data from Afghanistan's 2008 National Risk and Vulnerability Assessment conducted by the Central Statistics Office (CSO) of Afghanistan. This is the best, most recent household survey available with income or expenditure data. The Microfinance Investment Support Facility for Afghanistan (MISFA) conducted a basic field test during PPI development and provided translations for the documents below.
The latest version of the PPI for Afghanistan was created in January of 2012. The PPI description and documents are based on or taken from The Progress out of Poverty Index®: A Simple Poverty Scorecard for Afghanistan by Mark Schreiner of Microfinance Risk Management, L.L.C.
PPI® Toolkit For Afghanistan
The PPI Toolkit file contains all documents pertaining to the Afghanistan PPI Toolkit. The PPI At-A-Glance document describes the documents in the toolkit and what they are used for. To download individual documents please see below.
| PPI Toolkit for Afghanistan |
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| PPI At-A-Glance: Overview of country specific PPI information and documents. Includes background data, poverty rates, PPI users, and local trainers where available. |
| PPI Scorecard: Country-specific set of PPI indicators for Afghanistan developed from Afghanistan’s 2008 National Risk and Vulnerability Assessment (NRVA) by the Central Statistics Office of Afghanistan. |
| PPI Scorecard (Dari): Translated into Dari by the Microfinance Investment Support Facility for Afghanistan (MISFA). |
| PPI Lookup Tables: Corresponding look-up tables used to generate poverty likelihoods and rates for the PPI Scorecard for Afghanistan. |
| PPI Interpretation of Indicators: Official instructions (where available) for each indicator in the PPI scorecard taken from the 2007 National Risk and Vulnerability Assessment enumerator manual. |
| PPI Interpretation of Indicators (Dari): Translated into Dari by the Microfinance Investment Support Facility for Afghanistan (MISFA). |
| PPI Sample Size Calculator: Country-specific formula for estimating precision levels of PPI results and determining sample sizes based on desired confidence intervals and levels.Updated February 2012. |
| PPI Field Test Overview: Description of the field test conducted on the PPI during development. Coming soon! |
| PPI Design Documentation Memo: Detailed technical description of the PPI construction and design, written by Mark Schreiner. |
