In constructing multidimensional poverty measures, it is possible to apply weights a) in aggregating variables within one dimension; b) in aggregating across dimensions; c) in aggregating across people. At each point of aggregation, we need to determine the parameters that define the marginal contribution of each indicator, dimension, or individual to the overall well-being (or [...]
Multidimensional Poverty Measures – Preliminary Explorations, 16 June 2008 Open Dialogue with OPHI, 16 June 2008 This paper contains powerpoints and papers that apply multidimensional poverty measurement in different contexts Most countries of the world define poverty by income. Yet poor people themselves define their poverty much more broadly—to include lack of education, health, empowerment, [...]
Workshop programme Participant biographies The goal of this OPHI workshop is to identify and discuss specific areas for research aimed at developing stronger methodologies of robustness for multidimensional well-being analysis. Special emphasis is given to stochastic dominance techniques. The sessions will survey how various methods have been applied in the literature, and identify strengths and [...]
Workshop summary, selected papers and presentations Workshop programme [pdf] Getting to Oxford, getting to OPHI [pdf] Practical information [pdf] Participant biographies [pdf] Spaces are extremely limited so resources from this workshop will be made available on this webpage. We encourage comments and suggestions by email. Multidimensional measures aggregate information on diverse attributes into a common [...]
Durban, 16 August, 2009 On 16 August, OPHI conducted a workshop on the Missing Dimensions of Poverty Data in Durban, South Africa prior to the opening of the 57th session of the International Statistics Institute (ISI). The ISI has as its objective ‘to promote the understanding, development, and good practice of statistics worldwide’ and assembled [...]