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Poverty/food security Average household size
•Definition: The percent of population who experience moderate or severe food insecurity. Or the percent of the population living on less than $1.90/day according to purchasing power parity (adjusted to 2011 international dollars).
•Default data source: Food insecurity experience scale (FIES): Suite of Food Security Indicators Available from: https://www.fao.org/faostat/en/#data/FS. For more information on FIES: Ballard TJ, Kepple AW, Cafiero C. The food insecurity experience scale: developing a global standard for monitoring hunger worldwide. Technical Paper. Rome: FAO; 2013.
•World Bank, Development Research Group. Poverty headcount ratio at $1.90 a day (PPP) (% of population). http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SI.POV.DDAY.
World Bank, Development Research Group. Data are based on primary household survey data obtained from government statistical agencies and World Bank country departments. Data for high-income economies are from the Luxembourg Income Study database. For more information and methodology, please see PovcalNet (http://iresearch.worldbank.org/PovcalNet/index.htm).
•Notes: When FIES data are unavailable, the percentage of population living on <$1.9/day is used. See technical note
•Definition: The average number of people living in a household.
•Default data source: Data are drawn from DHS, MICS, and other nationally representative household surveys.
•Notes: This is only used to estimate households in need for costing purposes. |
