{"id":141627,"date":"2021-10-18T19:01:21","date_gmt":"2021-10-18T13:31:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=141627"},"modified":"2021-10-22T12:38:28","modified_gmt":"2021-10-22T07:08:28","slug":"statsguru-six-charts-explain-another-dimension-of-poverty-in-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/statsguru-six-charts-explain-another-dimension-of-poverty-in-india\/","title":{"rendered":"Statsguru: Six charts explain another dimension of poverty in India"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h5><b>What is the News?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Researchers have released a paper titled \u201c<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Examining multidimensional poverty reduction in India between 2005\/6\u20132015\/16\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><b>What are the key highlights of the paper released?<\/b><\/h5>\n<h5><b>Incidence of Poverty<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Incidence of Poverty or the headcount ratio defines the percentage of people who are poor.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to the research, the all-India national average of <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Incidence of Poverty <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">was 27.9 %.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When compared social group-wise, the incidence of poverty was highest among Scheduled Tribes(STs). Over half (50.6%) of the ST population was multidimensionally poor.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">They were followed by Scheduled Caste groups where a third(33.3%) were affected by multidimensional poverty.<\/span><\/p>\n<h6><b>Intensity of Poverty<\/b><\/h6>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The intensity of Poverty defines the average share of deprivation experienced by the poor.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The all-India national average of <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Intensity of Poverty <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">was 43.9 per cent.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When compared social group-wise, the intensity of poverty was marginally higher among Scheduled Tribes (45.9%) compared to Scheduled Caste(44.1%) and Other Backward Classes(43.5%).<\/span><\/p>\n<h6><b>Religion wise differences in incidence and intensity of multidimensional poverty\u00a0<\/b><\/h6>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The NFHS 2015-16 data shows the difference in incidence and intensity of multidimensional poverty among religious groups.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Muslims had a higher <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">incidence and <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">intensity of <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Poverty,<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> followed by Hindus and Christians.<\/span><\/p>\n<h6><b>Asset Ownership among Social Groups<\/b><\/h6>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>All India Debt and Investment Survey<\/strong>(AIDIS) provides data regarding asset holdings of social groups.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to the survey, about 98.8% of ST households in rural areas had assets vis-\u00e0-vis the 99.4% national average.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In urban areas, the divide was even starker with only 93% of ST households having assets, compared to 98% national average.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">However, the data also shows that the average value of assets held by Scheduled Tribes(STs) was higher compared to Scheduled Castes.<\/span><\/p>\n<h6><b>Covid-19 Impact on Poverty<\/b><\/h6>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The multidimensional poverty index does not show the deprivation caused by the Covid-19 pandemic.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But the <a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/pew-research-study-reports-increasing-poverty-in-india\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pew Research Centre study<\/a> indicates that India may have added 75 million poor because of the disruption caused due to Covid-19.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Source:<\/b> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This post is based on the article <\/span><b>\u201c<\/b><b>Statsguru: Six charts explain another dimension of poverty in India<\/b><b>\u201d<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> published in<\/span><b> Business Standard <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">on <\/span><b>18th October 2021.<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is the News? Researchers have released a paper titled \u201cExamining multidimensional poverty reduction in India between 2005\/6\u20132015\/16\u201d. What are the key highlights of the paper released? Incidence of Poverty Incidence of Poverty or the headcount ratio defines the percentage of people who are poor. According to the research, the all-India national average of Incidence&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/statsguru-six-charts-explain-another-dimension-of-poverty-in-india\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Statsguru: Six charts explain another dimension of poverty in India<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,1305,7965,9],"tags":[901,902],"class_list":["post-141627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-index-reports-bodies","category-miscellaneous-daily-factly-articles","category-public","tag-multidimensional-poverty","tag-poverty","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141627"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141627\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}