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where MMR=maternal mortality rate; AFR=adolescent<br />

fertility rate; PRF=share of parliamentary seats held by women;<br />

PRM =share of parliamentary seats held by men; SEF = share<br />

of women who have secondary and higher education; SEM =<br />

share of men who havesecondary and higher education; LFPRF<br />

= labour force participation rate for women; LFPRM= labour<br />

force participation rate for men.<br />

The female and male indices are aggregated by the harmonic<br />

mean to create the equally distributed gender index:<br />

HARM(G F<br />

,G M<br />

) = (G F )-1 + (G M<br />

)<br />

[<br />

-1<br />

2 ]<br />

indicator is equally weighted. The MPI reveals the combination<br />

of deprivations that batter a household at the same time. A<br />

household is identified as a multidimensionally poor household<br />

if it is deprived in some combination of indicators, the weighted<br />

sum of which exceeds 30 percent of total deprivations.<br />

Method of computation<br />

Each person in a given household is classified as poor or nonpoor<br />

depending on a weighted count of deprivations,‘c’, which<br />

-1<br />

Using the harmonic mean of geometric means within groups<br />

captures the inequality between women and men and adjusts<br />

for association between dimensions.<br />

The geometric mean of the arithmetic mean for each indicator:<br />

is calculated based on the number of deprivations his or her<br />

household experiences. The weights to be assigned to each<br />

deprivation in the household are given in Table T.4. If the<br />

weighted count of deprivation ‘c’, exceeds 3 (i.e., if c>3), this<br />

G F,M<br />

= 3<br />

Health x Empowerment x LFPR<br />

whereHealth =<br />

1<br />

MMR x 1<br />

( + 1<br />

AFR )/<br />

2<br />

Empowerment = (√ PR F + √ PR M) / 2<br />

LFPR = LFPR F + LFPR M<br />

2<br />

Gender Inequality Index (GII) = 1 -<br />

HARM(G F<br />

, G M<br />

)<br />

G F, M<br />

Multidimensional Poverty Index<br />

The MPI is an index of acute multidimensional poverty that<br />

has three dimensions: health, education and living standards.<br />

These are measured by 10 indicators. Each dimension and<br />

indicates that the household is deprived in some combination<br />

of indicators,the weighted sum of which exceeds 30 percent.<br />

The MPI thus requires a household to be deprived in multiple<br />

indicators at the same time. As deprived households have to<br />

be identified at the individual level, micro-data from national<br />

surveys are needed to compute the MPI.<br />

170<br />

sri lanka <strong>Human</strong> <strong>Development</strong> report 2012

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