Slide 1 Summary of responses on multidimensional poverty measurement (Eastern Europe, Caucasus and Central Asia) UNECE 4 May 2015

Slide 2 UNECE Questionnaire on Methods of Poverty Measurement in Official Statistics  11 replies  3 countries have multidimensional poverty measures Armenia Azerbaijan Belarus Georgia Russian Federation Kazakhstan Kyrgyzstan Republic of Moldova Mongolia Ukraine Uzbekistan

Slide 3 Multidimensional poverty in EECCA countries  Belarus Material deprivation rate  Proportion of households which lack at least 4 out of 12 deprivations  Annual, data from household living standards survey  Moldova Small Area Deprivation Index (SADI)  Multiple Deprivation Index calculated for 843 rural communities (ranked according to income, economic, geographic, demographic, health and education deprivations)  Calculated every 2 years, data from administrative records, NBS and locally collected by the Ministry of Economy  Ukraine Deprivation poverty  Considers economic deprivation (i.e. lack of funds for necessary low-cost goods and services) and deprivation by access (i.e. inadequate development of infrastructure as indication of geographical accessibility of services and barriers of non-geographic nature)  Poverty line: 4 or more deprivations among 18  Poverty by relative monetary criteria (expenditure) and deprivation also calculated –Households with expenditure per capita <75% median expenditure + 4 deprivations out of 18  Calculated every 2 years, data from survey of households’ living conditions