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multidimensional poverty index [message #28550]

Mon, 29 January 2024 10:40

Amanda
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Registered: December 2023

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I am writing a research thesis that primarily focuses on multidimensional poverty and how it impacts antenatal care utilization. I wanted to ask if there was a way in which i could decompose or recode the wealth quantiles into an MPI or if there is a specific data set i could use to come up with an index. your help will be highly appreciated. if someone was able to already did it, please point me towards the codes they used.

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Re: multidimensional poverty index [message #28582 is a reply to message #28550]

Thu, 01 February 2024 13:05

SaraDHS
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Registered: December 2020

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Hello Amanda,
While we have not used the multidimensional poverty index much in our work at the DHS Program and so don't have specific code to share, UNDP has a page where they share code to calculate the MPI based on DHS data, depending on the country dataset you are using: https://hdr.undp.org/mpi-statistical-programmes

I hope this is helpful!

Sara

Sara Riese, PhD Senior Demographic and Health Researcher, DHS Program

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