Table 2.

Poverty Transition Matrix: Empirical Probability of Transitions Poverty Status from One Period to Later Period(s)

		1993		1997		2000		2004		2006
Poverty Status:		Poor	Non-Poor	Poor	Non-Poor	Poor	Non-Poor	Poor	Non-Poor	Poor	Non-Poor
1991	Poor	0.54	0.15	0.41	0.29	0.34	0.35	0.19	0.50	0.13	0.56
	Non-Poor	0.15	0.15	0.09	0.22	0.08	0.23	0.04	0.27	0.04	0.27
1993	Poor			0.40	0.29	0.33	0.36	0.16	0.53	0.14	0.55
	Non-Poor			0.10	0.21	0.09	0.22	0.07	0.24	0.03	0.27
1997	Poor					0.27	0.22	0.17	0.33	0.10	0.39
	Non-Poor					0.15	0.35	0.06	0.45	0.07	0.43
2000	Poor							0.13	0.30	0.11	0.31
	Non-Poor							0.10	0.48	0.07	0.51
2004	Poor									0.07	0.15
	Non-Poor									0.10	0.67

Note: Empirical probabilities are computed as sample averages for each of the particular transition categories.