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 Integrated Household Survey 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 2011 and updated in February 2012.
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 Scorecard: Country-specific set of PPI indicators for Malawi developed from Malawi's 2004 Integrated Household Survey by the National Statistical Office of Malawi.
- PPI Look-up Tables: Corresponding look-up tables used to generate poverty likelihoods and rates for the PPI Scorecard for Malawi.
- PPI Interpretation of Indicators: Official instructions (where available) for each indicator in the PPI scorecard taken from the 2004 Integrated Household Survey enumerator manual.
- 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: A detailed technical description of the PPI design and construction, written by Mark Schreiner.
