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

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 segment clients for market research.

The latest version of the PPI for India was created in March of 2012 and based on results of Household Consumer Expenditure Survey - Round 66 (July 2009 to June 2010) conducted by National Sample Survey Office (NSSO).

In India, Grameen Foundation USA operates through its wholly owned subsidiary, Grameen Foundation India (GFI). GFI has been set up as a social business that catalyzes double bottom line approaches to serving the poor and the poorest. Grameen Foundation India (GFI) strives to create an ecosystem where pro-poor organizations use client level poverty and related data to design products and services in order to better serve the target segments. GFI facilitates and provides the necessary technical support to pro poor organisations and other stakeholders such as Investors and Funders to implementing the PPI.

The PPI description and documents are based on or taken from The Progress out of Poverty Index®: A Simple Poverty Scorecard for India, by Mark Schreiner of Microfinance Risk Management, L.L.C.

PPI® TOOLKIT FOR INDIA

PPI Toolkit:  Download all listed documents at once in a .zip file. Coming soon!
PPI Update Process: Overview of the process for updating the India PPI. Coming soon!
PPI At-A-Glance: Overview of country specific PPI information and documents. Includes background data, poverty rates, PPI users, and local trainers where available. Updated May 2012.
PPI Scorecard: Country-specific set of PPI indicators for India developed from India's 2009 Social-Economic Survey by the National Sample Survey Office.
PPI Look-up Tables: Corresponding look-up tables used to generate poverty likelihoods and rates for the PPI Scorecard for India. Updated May 2012.
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.  Coming soon!
PPI Interpretation of Indicators: Official instructions (where available) for each indicator in the PPI scorecard taken from the 2009 Social-Economic Survey enumerator manual.
PPI User Review Feedback: The responses and ranking from participants in the User Review process. Updated May 2012.
PPI Field Test Overview: Description and results of the field test conducted on the PPI during development. The field test was coordinated by Grameen Foundation India (GFI). Coming soon!
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. Updated May 2012.
PPI Design Documentation Memo: A detailed technical description of the PPI design and construction, written by Mark Schreiner. Updated April 2012.