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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Feb 1.
Published in final edited form as: World Dev. 2016 Feb 1;78:541–553. doi: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2015.10.022

Table 4.

Poverty and vulnerability categorization

Vulnerable
Poor
Non-Poor
Low
Expected
Income
(A+D)
High
Income
Variability
(B+E)
Wave Chronic
Poor
(A)
transient
Poor
(B+C)
High
Vulnerability
(D+E)
Low
Vulnerability
(F)
1991 0.63 0.06 0.21 0.10 0.79 0.09
1993 0.60 0.09 0.20 0.11 0.75 0.11
1997 0.39 0.11 0.23 0.27 0.55 0.14
2000 0.32 0.10 0.25 0.33 0.45 0.20
2004 0.11 0.11 0.14 0.64 0.17 0.14
2006 0.05 0.13 0.10 0.72 0.09 0.12

Note: Figures represent sample proportions. The first four columns correspond to the underlying sample for the given year, while the last two columns correspond to only the vulnerable subsample.