Malawi
The Progress out of Poverty Index® (PPI®) for Malawi is an easy-to-use, objective client poverty assessment tool. It estimates the likelihood that a participant has income below the National Poverty line, Food Poverty line, USAID "Extreme" Poverty Line, $1/Day/1993 PPP, $2/Day/1993 PPP, $1.25/Day/2005 PPP, and $2.50/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. The PPI can help programs target services, track changes in poverty over time, and report on poverty rates.
Indicators in the PPI are based on the 2004/5 IHS2 conducted by the National Statistical Office of Malawi (NSO). This is the best, most recent household survey available with income or expenditure data. The latest version of the PPI for Malawi was created in February 2009 and then revised in November 2010.
* This description is taken from: The Progress out of Poverty Index®: A Simple Poverty Scorecard for Malawi, Shiyuan Chen, Mark Schreiner, and Gary Woller.
PPI® Toolkit for Malawi
- PPI Indicators and Lookup Table for Malawi: Country-specific set of PPI indicators and corresponding poverty likelihood lookup table. This document was revised in November of 2010.
- PPI Design Documentation for Malawi: A detailed technical description of the PPI construction and design, written by Shiyuan Chen, Mark Schreiner and Gary Woller.
