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A Simple Poverty Scorecard for the Philippines

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points or less <strong>for</strong> estimates of changes in a poverty rate between two points in time. Forn = 1,024, <strong>the</strong> 90-percent intervals are +/–2.0 and +/–1.7 percentage points or less.Section 2 below describes data and poverty lines. Section 3 places <strong>the</strong> newscorecard here in <strong>the</strong> context of existing exercises <strong>for</strong> <strong>the</strong> <strong>Philippines</strong>. Sections 4 and 5describe scorecard construction and offer practical guidelines <strong>for</strong> use. Sections 6 and 7detail <strong>the</strong> estimation of households’ poverty likelihoods and of groups’ poverty rates ata point in time. Section 8 discusses estimating changes in poverty rates. Section 9covers targeting. The final section is a summary.6

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