Peru

The Progress out of Poverty Index® (PPI®) for Peru is an easy-to-use, objective client poverty assessment tool. It estimates the likelihood that a participant has income below eight different poverty lines: National Poverty line, 150% of the National Poverty line, 200% of the National Poverty line, Food Poverty line, USAID "Extreme" Poverty Line, $1.25/Day/2005 PPP, $2.50/Day/2005 PPP, and $3.75/Day/2005 PPP.

The PPI uses 10 simple indicators that field workers can quickly collect and verify. Scores can be computed by hand on paper in real time. With 90-percent confidence, estimates of groups' overall poverty rates are accurate to within +/-1 percentage points (depending on sample sizes). The PPI can help programs target services, track changes in poverty over time, and report on poverty rates.

Indicators in the PPI were derived from the the 2007 Encuesta Nacional de Hogares (ENAHO). This is the best, most recent household survey available with income and expenditure data. The latest version of the PPI for Peru was created in February 2009. The Spanish scorecard was revised in June 2011, question #6, response A was changed from, "Otro combustible, o no se cocina," to "Otro combustible."

* This description is taken from: The Progress out of Poverty Index™: A Simple Poverty Scorecard for Peru, Mark Schreiner.

PPI® Toolkit for Peru