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A Simple Poverty Scorecard for the Philippines

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If not determined by o<strong>the</strong>r factors, <strong>the</strong> number of participants to be scored canbe derived from sample-size <strong>for</strong>mulas (presented later) <strong>for</strong> a desired level of confidenceand a desired confidence interval.Frequency of application can be:• At in-take of new clients only (precluding measuring change in poverty rates)• As a once-off project <strong>for</strong> current participants (precluding measuring change)• Once a year (or at some o<strong>the</strong>r fixed time interval, allowing measuring change)• Each time a field worker visits a participant at home (allowing measuring change)When <strong>the</strong> scorecard is applied more than once in order to measure change inpoverty rates, it can be applied:• With a different set of participants• With <strong>the</strong> same set of participantsAn example set of choices were made by BRAC and ASA, two microlenders inBangladesh (each with 7 million participants) who are applying a poverty scorecardsimilar to <strong>the</strong> one here (Schreiner, 2006b). Their design is that loan officers in a randomsample of branches will score all participants each time <strong>the</strong>y visit a homestead (aboutonce a year) as part of <strong>the</strong>ir standard due diligence prior to loan disbursement.Responses are recorded on paper in <strong>the</strong> field be<strong>for</strong>e being sent to a central office to beentered into a database. ASA’s and BRAC’s sampling plans cover 50,000–100,000participants each.20

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