Abstract

• Author: Giulio Caperna - Eleni Papadimitriou
• Pages: 1-1

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Abstr act

The Individual Deprivation Measure (IDM) is a gender-sensitive, multidimensional measure of poverty. The

measure assesses deprivation at the individual level, in relation to 15 key dimensions of life, namely Food,

Water, Shelter, Health, Education, Energy/fuel, Sanitation, Relat ionships, Clothing, Violence, Family planning,

Environment, Voice, Time- Use and Work. It offers information addit ional to other national surveys, providing a

high level summary of deprivation through an index w hile enabling users to gain fur ther understanding through

the decomposit ion and disaggregation of t he scalar, gender-sensitive, individual-l evel data on which it is based.

European Commission’s Competence Centre on Composite Indicators and Scoreboards (COIN ) at the Joint

Research Centre (JRC) was invited by the International Women’s Development Agency (IWDA) to audit the IDM

study concerning t he Fiji (2014-17) dataset. In this dataset, composed by almost three thousands subjects, only

13 out of 15 key dimensions of the IDM are considered.

The statistical audit presented herein aims to contribute to ensuring the transparency of the IDM methodology

and the reliability of the results. The report touches upon data quality issues, the conceptual and statistical

coherence of the framework and the impact of modelling assumptions on the results.