The Progress out of Poverty Index™ (PPI™) for Rwanda 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, 50% of  National Poverty Line, 150% of National Poverty Line, USAID "Extreme" Poverty Line, $1.25/day 2005 PPP line, and $2.50/day 2005 PPP 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. With 90-percent confidence, estimates of groups’ overall poverty rates are accurate to within +/–1.3 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 6,900 households in the 2005/6 Household Living Standards Survey (Enquête Intégrale sur les Conditions de Vie des Ménages, EICV). This is the best, most recent household survey available with income or expenditure data.The latest version of the PPI for Rwanda was created in November of 2010.

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

PPI™ Toolkit for Rwanda

• PPI™ Design Documentation Memo for Rwanda: A detailed technical description of the PPI construction and design, written by Mark Schreiner.
• PPI™ Indicators and Lookup Table for Rwanda: Country-specific set of PPI indicators and corresponding poverty likelihood lookup table.
• PPI Interview Guidelines for Rwanda: Definitions and instructions for enumerators based on the data  is  currently are not available.
  PPI Sampling Guidelines for Rwanda: 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). 
• Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)