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The bubble chart (Figure T.3) shows the relationship between<br />

the percentage of multidimensionally poor people and income<br />

poor people. The districts with the highest incidences of<br />

multidimensional poverty and those with highest income<br />

poverty are located in the top right of the chart. Those with the<br />

lowest incidences are located in the bottom left. As there is no<br />

perfect relationship between these two measures, districtsare<br />

not grouped into four distinct clusters. There are overlaps and<br />

gray areas, but broad associations are discernible.<br />

in the chart towards the horizontal axis, Batticaloa District had<br />

the highest incidence of multidimensional poverty, although its<br />

income poverty was less than that for most other districts in its<br />

cluster. Kurunegala had the highest share of people (9.4 percent)<br />

who weremultidimensionally poor, followed by Ratnapura at<br />

8.5 percent, Nuwara Eliya at 7.6 percent, Badulla at 7.5 percent,<br />

Monaragala at 6.6 percent and Kandy at 6 percent.<br />

Figure T.3:<br />

Multidimensionally Poverty and Income Poverty Headcounts by District,<br />

2006-2007<br />

uultiNote: The size of the bubble indicates the share of multidimensionally poor people in eachdistrict<br />

(out of the total in <strong>Sri</strong> <strong>Lanka</strong>); Galle, Matara and Hambantota districts are hidden behind the second<br />

cluster from the bottom.<br />

Source: Computations by the report team of the Institute of Policy Studies of <strong>Sri</strong> <strong>Lanka</strong> using<br />

Department of Census and Statistics of <strong>Sri</strong> <strong>Lanka</strong> 2007a and 2007b.<br />

In 2006-2007, the most deprived districts in the country,<br />

excluding those in the Northern Province, which the survey did<br />

not cover, were Monaragala and Nuwara Eliya, located at the<br />

top right of Figure T.3. They were followed by Matale, Badulla<br />

and Ratnapura, which are located in another cluster just below<br />

the top right. Colombo and Gampaha were the least deprived<br />

districts, followed by Kalutara. In another cluster located midway<br />

Comparison between 2006-2007 and<br />

2009-2010<br />

In <strong>Sri</strong> <strong>Lanka</strong>, health is the most developed of the three HDI<br />

dimensions. Its national index is 0.866, which is considerably<br />

higher than the income index at 0.552 or the educational index<br />

at 0.694. On the other hand, multidimensional poverty analysis<br />

reveals that the health dimension is responsible for 41 percent<br />

Technical Note 175

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