Table 1.
Households (HHs) living on less than |
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$1.08 per person per day |
$2.16 per person per day |
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Country | Source | Year | Avg. monthly consumption per capita (In PPP$) | Number surveyed | Percent of total surveyed HHs | Number surveyed | Percent of total surveyed HHs |
Cote d’Ivoire | LSMS | 1988 | 664.13 | 375 | 14% | 1,411 | 49% |
Guatemala | GFHS | 1995 | 301.92 | 469 | 18% | 910 | 34% |
India-Hyderabad | Banerjee-Duflo-Glennerster | 2005 | 71.61 | 106 | 7% | 1,030 | 56% |
India-Udaipur | Banerjee-Deaton-Duflo | 2004 | 43.12 | 482 | 47% | 883 | 86% |
Indonesia | IFLS | 2000 | 142.84 | 320 | 4% | 2,106 | 26% |
Mexico | MxFLS | 2002 | 167.97 | 959 | 15% | 2,698 | 39% |
Nicaragua | LSMS | 2001 | 117.34 | 333 | 6% | 1,322 | 28% |
Pakistan | LSMS | 1991 | 48.01 | 1,573 | 40% | 3,632 | 83% |
Panama | LSMS | 1997 | 359.73 | 123 | 2% | 439 | 6% |
Papua New Guinea | LSMS | 1996 | 133.38 | 185 | 15% | 485 | 38% |
Peru | LSMS | 1994 | 151.88 | 297 | 7% | 821 | 20% |
South Africa | LSMS | 1993 | 291.33 | 413 | 5% | 1,641 | 19% |
Tanzania | LSMS | 1993 | 50.85 | 1,184 | 35% | 2,941 | 73% |
Timor Leste | LSMS | 2001 | 64.42 | 662 | 15% | 2,426 | 51% |
Sources: The Mexican Family Life Survey is documented in Rubalcava and Teruel (2004) and available at 〈http://www.radix.uia.mx/ennvih/〉. The LSMS are available from the World Bank LSMS project page. The IFLS and GFLS are available from the RAND FLS page 〈http://www.rand.org/labor/FLS/〉. The Udaipur data is available from 〈www.povertyactionlab.org/data〉. The Hyderabad data is forthcoming on the same page.
Notes: To compute the $1.08 and $2.16 poverty line for the countries in our sample, we use the 1993 consumption exchange rate provided by the World Bank (available at 〈http://iresearch.worldbank.org/PovcalNet/jsp/index.jsp〉) multiplied by the ratio of the country’s Consumer Price Index to the U.S. Consumer Price Index between 1993 and the year the survey was carried out. To compute average consumption per capita and the proportion of households in poverty, observations are weighted using (survey weight * household size).