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NATIONAL STATISTICAL COMMITTEE OF THE REPUBLIC OF BELARUS
Inna Konoshonok
Head of the Living Standards Statistics
and Household Survey Department
Measuring poverty
and inequality in the
Republic of Belarus
Measuring poverty and inequality
in the Republic of Belarus
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Statistical
Committee of
the Republic of
Belarus
Sample
Household
Living Standards
Survey
Measurement
of poverty
and inequality
in the
Republic of
Belarus
Sample
Sample size - 6000 private households –
0.2% of the general population
General population for the sampling
procedure – the total number of
households living in Belarus excluding
institutional households and homeless
persons
Rotation – 75% of households
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Sample design
 Three-stage stratified probability
sample
 Territorial principle of sampling
 Selection is carried out separately
for urban and rural areas
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Distribution of sample population
over the territory
Towns and urban-type
settlements
Rural localities
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Survey indicators
 expenditures and income
 food consumption
 durable goods
 housing conditions
 indicators reflecting other aspects
of living standards
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Approaches to poverty assessment
 Absolute poverty –
official poverty indicator
 Relative poverty
 Subjective poverty
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Absolute poverty
Statutory national poverty line –
minimum subsistence budget
Article 1 of the Law of the Republic of Belarus «On the
minimum subsistence level in the Republic of Belarus»:
low-income citizens (families) are
citizens (families) with average per capita
income below the minimum subsistence
budget (for objective reasons)
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Minimum subsistence budget
food
Minimum
subsistence level
non-food goods
services
Compulsory payments
and contributions
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Income indicator
Income indicator –
disposable resources
money funds
Disposable
resources
value of consumed
home-grown produce
value of in-kind benefits
and payments
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Relative poverty
 Relative poverty line –
60% of the national average per capita
equivalised median disposable resources
 National equivalence scale applied
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National equivalence scale
 1.0 – the first adult in the household
 0.8 – each other adult
 0.9 – each child at the age of over 6 and
under 18
 0.7 – each child at the age of over 3 and
under 6
 0.5 – each child under 3
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Poverty indicators in the
Republic of Belarus
Indicator value
(2012), %
Poverty indicator
Absolute poverty (a share of the
population with income below the
minimum subsistence budget)
6.3
Relative poverty
14.2
Subjective poverty
14.3
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Poverty indicator frequency
Absolute poverty
Quarter
Year
+
+
+
Relative poverty
Subjective poverty
+
+
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Poverty indicator breakdowns
 national level
 regional level
 urban and rural areas
 socio-demographic population groups
(gender, age)
 types of households
(household size, households with children, pensioners
families)
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Inequality indicators
Indicator value
(2012)
Indicator
0.285
Gini coefficient
Ratio of disposable resources of
10% groups
5.9
20% groups
4.0
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Material deprivation indicators
 deprivations in housing conditions
(living in hazardous dwellings, available housing
floor space does not exceed 5 sq. meters per person )
 deprivations in material well-being
(lack of money for the purchase of meat and fish
products, new outerwear and footwear, durable goods;
inability to pay for unexpected expenses)
 deprivations of households with children
(lack of money for a regular purchase of fruit
for children, lack of money to buy new clothing and
footwear for children as they grow out of clothes,
to provide them with textbooks and school supplies)
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Methodological issues of
compiling material deprivation list
 expediency to include material
deprivations which do not apply
to the majority of the population
 expediency to include in the
general list material deprivations
typical only for families with
children
 to define concentration
of deprivations out of the basic
list which are associated with poverty
 to define the weight of each deprivation in the
resulting final index
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Future developments
 Using the theory of material deprivations
 Multi-dimensional poverty measurement
 Measuring social benefits and subsidies
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Thank you
for you attention!