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A Simple Poverty Scorecard for the Philippines

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likelihoods of 80.9, 59.6, and 36.8 percent (national line, Figure 4). The group’s baselineestimated poverty rate is <strong>the</strong> households’ average poverty likelihood of (80.9 + 59.6 +36.8) ÷ 3 = 59.1 percent.After baseline, two sampling approaches are possible <strong>for</strong> <strong>the</strong> follow-up round:• Score a new, independent sample, measuring change by cohort across samples• Score <strong>the</strong> same sample at follow-up as at baselineBy way of illustration, suppose that a year later on Jan. 1, 2010, <strong>the</strong> programsamples three additional households who are in <strong>the</strong> same cohort as <strong>the</strong> three householdsoriginally sampled (or suppose that <strong>the</strong> program scores <strong>the</strong> same three originalhouseholds a second time) and finds that <strong>the</strong>ir scores are 25, 35, and 45 (povertylikelihoods of 68.5, 48.9, and 21.1 percent, national line, Figure 4). Their averagepoverty likelihood at follow-up is now (68.5 + 48.9 + 21.1) ÷ 3 = 46.2 percent, animprovement of 59.1 – 46.2 = 12.9 percentage points.This suggests that about one of eight participants crossed <strong>the</strong> poverty line in2009. 24 Among those who started below <strong>the</strong> line, about one in five (12.9 ÷ 59.1 = 21.8percent) ended up above <strong>the</strong> line. 258.3 Accuracy <strong>for</strong> estimated change in two independent samplesGiven <strong>the</strong> poverty scorecard built from <strong>the</strong> construction and calibration sampleswith <strong>the</strong> 2004 APIS, an estimate of <strong>the</strong> change in <strong>the</strong> poverty rate between 2004 and24This is a net figure; some people start above <strong>the</strong> line and end below it, and vice versa.25<strong>Poverty</strong> scoring does not reveal <strong>the</strong> reasons <strong>for</strong> this change.35

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