Table 1. Summary of income data from the 1998 Malawi Integrated Household Survey updated for inflation to June 2001 using the consumer price index from the Reserve Bank of Malawi.

	All urban	Poor urban	Non-poor urban
Daily income	MK 54.06 US$ 0.71 (MK 23.38)	MK 16.00 US$ 0.21 (MK 6.92)	MK 93.38 US$ 1.23 (MK 40.38)
% Spent on food	35.2%	57.5%	29.8%

Note: Income quoted in Malawi kwacha (MK) at June 2001 prices; amounts in brackets are the April 1998 prices quoted in the Poverty Profile of Malawi.²⁰
US$ exchange rate, June 2001: 75.7.