Indicator 1.1.1.1 Extreme poverty rate

Kyrgyz Republic

Percentage

Extreme poverty is the proportion of the total population living below the national poverty line.

In order to calculate the proportion and the size of the country’s population living below the national extreme poverty line, a welfare indicator (consumption expenditure) and an extreme poverty line indicator in value terms are required. The extreme poverty line is the minimum income per person needed to meet minimum human nutritional needs of 2,100 kcal per day. Household consumption expenditures are monetary expenditures on non-food consumer goods and services, and the value of food consumption.

The national extreme poverty line is used to assess the living standard of the population and to justify the need for targeted government support to poor and disadvantaged citizens in the Kyrgyz Republic. The welfare indicator is calculated annually based on regularly collected data on expenditures and consumption of the population in the Kyrgyz Republic. The extreme poverty line is determined based on the revised social standards, changes in data collecting and processing methodology, when annual average inflation exceeds 10 percent. In subsequent years, the extreme poverty line is indexed annually based on the value of the consumer price index (period to period) for foodstuffs.

The household and all its members are extremely poor if the average per capita cost of household consumption does not exceed the extreme poverty line, assuming that all resources were used for foodstuffs only. The indicator is calculated as a percentage to the total population.

The extreme poverty assessment based on the national extreme poverty line is different from the international poverty line of $1.90 per day. The assessment of extreme poverty in the Kyrgyz Republic is based on sample household survey data, which puts a limit on extreme poverty indicators.

The raw data are quality-tested before being used for further analysis.

A comparable time series based on a single methodology is available since 2000.

National and subnational levels.

Extreme poverty indicators base on the national extreme poverty line are not comparable with other countries, despite the fact that the NSC uses consumption-based measure of poverty as one of the standard and internationally approved poverty measure.

Extreme poverty line measure nethodology: http://cbd.minjust.gov.kg/act/view/ru-ru/92513 The Kyrgyz Republic SDG National Reporting Platform: https://sustainabledevelopment-kyrgyzstan.github.io

Integrated Sample Household Budget and Labour Force Survey (IHS).

Interviewers conduct the survey making direct visits to households and completing IHS questionnaires approved by the Kyrgyz Republic National Statistical Committee Resolution. Data are collected within a two-stage cluster sampling based on the latest available Population Census and updated lists of residential premises. The IHS is based on personal interviews using tablet computers (ComputerAssisted Personal Interview, CAPI). The data are collected on a quarterly basis, and the indicator is developed based on the end-of-year results.

National Statistical Committee of the Kyrgyz Republic (Department of Household Statistics)

Kalymbetova Yryskan

yryskan.kalymbetova@gmail.com

(0312) 32 46 55

www.stat.gov.kg