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A Simple Poverty Scorecard for the Philippines - About the Philippines

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and 2004 (Figures A1 to A89). 3 The poverty scorecard is constructed using <strong>the</strong> 2004APIS and household-level lines, scores are calibrated to household-level povertylikelihoods, and accuracy is measured <strong>for</strong> household-level rates. This use of householdlevelrates reflects <strong>the</strong> belief that <strong>the</strong>y are relevant <strong>for</strong> most pro-poor organizations.Organizations can estimate person-level poverty rates by taking a household-sizeweightedaverage of <strong>the</strong> household-level poverty likelihoods. It is also possible toconstruct a scorecard based on person-level lines, calibrate scores to person-levellikelihoods, and measure accuracy <strong>for</strong> person-level rates, but it is not done here.2.2.2 <strong>Poverty</strong> linesThe national poverty line (PHP39.52 per person per day, Figure A1) is definedas <strong>the</strong> food poverty line (PHP25.72) plus <strong>the</strong> income required to cover average non-foodexpenditure <strong>for</strong> households whose food expenditure per capita is within +/–10 percentof <strong>the</strong> food poverty line. 4 The scorecard here is constructed using <strong>the</strong> national line.The poverty lines are based on data from <strong>the</strong> triennial Family Income andExpenditure Survey (FIES). For <strong>the</strong> 2002 APIS, this paper applies <strong>the</strong> 2002 lines3Many of <strong>the</strong> estimated poverty rates in Figures A2 to A89 are not very precise because<strong>the</strong>y are based on small samples.4The food line is based on “regional menus priced at <strong>the</strong> provincial level . . . using lowcost,nutritionally adequate food items satisfying basic food requirements of 2,000calories, which are 100-percent adequate <strong>for</strong> <strong>the</strong> Recommended Energy and NutrientIntake (RENI) <strong>for</strong> energy and protein and 80 percent adequate <strong>for</strong> <strong>the</strong> RENI <strong>for</strong>vitamins, minerals, and o<strong>the</strong>r nutrients” (National Statistical Coordination Board, 2007,p. 1).3

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