The Progress out of Poverty Index® (PPI®) for Uganda is an easy-to-use, objective client poverty assessment tool. The PPI estimates the likelihood that a household has income below a national or international poverty line. See "PPI At-A-Glance" below for a list of poverty lines and rates for Uganda.

The PPI scorecard uses simple non-financial indicators that are easy to collect accurately. This means field personnel can quickly capture and verify the indicators at the point of collection.  After PPI scorecard information is collected, a “look-up table” is used to associate scores with poverty likelihoods and aggregate poverty level results.  The PPI allows programs to: target services to poorer clients, calculate poverty levels of current clients, track changes in poverty levels over time and better focus market research.

Indicators in the PPI are based on data from the 2009/10 Uganda National Household Survey (UNHS) conducted by Uganda Bureau of Statistics. This is the best, most recent household survey available with income or expenditure data.  Sixteen respondents from twelve organizations participated in the User Review, download the "PPI User Review Feedback" below for details.  A basic field test was conducted by BRAC Uganda during PPI development and its results are outlined in the "PPI Field Test Overview".

The latest version of the PPI for Uganda was created in September of 2011.  The PPI description and documents are based on or taken from The Progress out of Poverty Index®: A Simple Poverty Scorecard for Uganda, Mark Schreiner of Microfinance Risk Management, L.L.C.

PPI® Toolkit For UGANDA

Download all files at once with "PPI Toolkit for Uganda.zip" or download each file individually. PPI At-A-Glance.pdf describes each file and is a good place to start.

PPI Toolkit for Uganda.zip
PPI At-A-Glance: Overview of country specific PPI information and documents. Includes background data, poverty rates, PPI users, and local trainers where available.
PPI Scorecard: Country-specific set of PPI indicators for Uganda developed from Uganda’s 2009 National Household Survey by the Uganda Bureau of Statistics (UBOS).  A household roster is included to assist with data collection.
PPI Look-up Tables: Corresponding look-up tables used to generate poverty likelihoods and rates for the PPI Scorecard for Uganda.
PPI Interview Guide: Short guide for the PPI scorecard which includes the most important definitions, examples and suggested ways to ask the indicators based on the national survey’s enumerator guide and field test conducted during PPI development.
PPI Interpretation of Indicators: Relevant and official instructions for each indicator in the PPI scorecard taken from the 2009 National Household Survey enumerator manual.
PPI User Review Feedback: The feedback and comments from participants in the User Review process with responses from Mark Schreiner and Grameen Foundation.
PPI Field Test Overview: Description of the field test conducted on the PPI during development.
PPI Sample Size Calculator:  Provides a country-specific formula for estimating precision levels of PPI results and determining sample sizes based on desired confidence intervals and levels.
PPI Design Documentation Memo: A detailed technical description of the PPI construction and design, written by Mark Schreiner.

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