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Re: BPL and Wealth Index [message #23674 is a reply to message #23667]

Fri, 29 October 2021 16:31

Bridgette-DHS
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Following is a response from DHS Research & Data Analysis Director, Tom Pullum:

Can you identify the source of that table? It's possible that the authors found the percentage below the poverty line in these countries from some other source(s) and then calculated the corresponding percentile on the continuous wealth variable (hv271). I don't see how they could have gone in the other direction, using the wealth quintile to calculate the percentage below a poverty line....

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