The Progress out of Poverty Index™ (PPI™) for Haiti is an easy-to-use, objective client poverty assessment tool. It estimates the likelihood that a participant has income below the $1/Day/PPP international benchmark.

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 +/–1.9 percentage points. 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 7,168 households surveyed in the 2001 Enquête sur les Conditions de Vie en Haïti (ECVH). This is the best, most recent household survey available with income or expenditure data. The latest version of the PPI for Haiti was created in June of 2006.

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

PPI™ Toolkit for Haiti

• PPI™ Design Overview for Haiti: A general overview of the construction and statistical underpinnings of the PPI.
• PPI™ Design Documentation for Haiti: A detailed technical description of the PPI construction and design, written by Mark Schreiner.
• PPI™ Indicators and Lookup Table for Haiti: An example of a country-specific set of PPI indicators and corresponding poverty likelihood lookup table.
• PPI™ Indicators and Lookup Table for Haiti (kreyol): An example of a country-specific set of PPI indicators and corresponding poverty likelihood lookup table.
• PPI™ Indicateurs et Tableau pour le Haiti (français): Un exemple d'un carte simplifee de score de pauvrete avec des indicateurs de pauvreté et aussi un tableau de'intervalles de probabilite de pauvrete.
• Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)