Vietnam
The Progress out of Poverty Index™ (PPI™) for Vietnam is an easy-to-use, objective client poverty assessment tool. It estimates the likelihood that a participant has income below the National Poverty Line, National Food Poverty Line, USAID "Extreme" Poverty Line, $1.25/Day/2005 PPP line, $1.75/Day/2005 PPP line, $2.50/Day/2005 PPP line, and the MOLISA Poverty Line.
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 Vietnam PPI are based on the 2006 Vietnam Living Standard Survey (VLSS). This is the best, most recent household survey available with income or expenditure data. The latest version of the PPI for Vietnam was created in March 2009 and a minor wording modification was made to the English scorecard in March 2010.
* This description is taken from: The Progress out of Poverty Index: A Simple Poverty Scorecard for Vietnam, Shiyuan Chen and Mark Schreiner.
PPI Toolkit for Vietnam
- PPI Scorecard and Lookup Table: An example of a country-specific set of PPI indicators and corresponding poverty likelihood lookup table.
- PPI Interpretation of Indicators: Definitions and instructions for enumerators based on the data.
- PPI Sampling Guidelines: This document allows users to determine a sample size with precision levels of their choice. It also enables users to determine the precision levels for a given sample size (N).
- PPI Design Documentation: A detailed technical description of the PPI construction and design, written by Mark Schreiner.
- PPI Pilot Project Plan Template (Vietnamese/tiếng Việt) - Excel Sheet
- PPI Pilot Budget Template (Vietnamese/tiếng Việt) - Excel Sheet
- PPI Pilot Sampling Template (Vietnamese/tiếng Việt) - Excel Sheet
- Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
