Table 2.
Dimension | Indicator | Definition |
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Health | Child death | One or more children born in the household in the last five years have died |
Child undernutrition | At least one child in the household under the age of 3 is underweight | |
Education | Adult education | No household member has completed five or more years of schooling |
Child not in school | At least one school-aged child is not enrolled in school | |
Standard of living | Unimproved water | The drinking water source does not meet the WHO/UNICEF JMP criteria for “improved” |
Unimproved sanitation | The sanitation facilities do not meet the WHO/UNICEF JMP criteria for “improved” | |
Indoor biomass fuel use | The household cooks food with biomass fuels, as defined in the MDGs | |
Low quality housing | The main housing material is kachha or semi-pucca | |
No electricity | The household has no electricity | |
Limited assets | The household has no car or truck and owns at most one of these - bicycle, motorbike, radio, refrigerator, or television |
Definitions presented here are those used in this analysis. The original MPI indicators and detailed descriptions of the rationale and methodology for each adaptation are included in Additional file 1: “Adaptions to the MPI methodology”.