How Do the Poverty Scorecard and the PAT Differ?

Type Working Paper
Title How Do the Poverty Scorecard and the PAT Differ?
Author(s)
Publication (Day/Month/Year) 2014
URL http://www.microfinance.com/English/Papers/Scorecard_versus_PAT.pdf
Abstract
The poverty scorecard and the Poverty Assessment Tool (PAT) are simple, low-cost
ways to measure households’ poverty. How do the two differ? For estimating a group’s
poverty rate, both are unbiased, and the scorecard has smaller standard errors. For
targeting individual households, the PAT correctly classifies about one more household
per 100. The scorecard has an edge in availability, recentness, and transparency.

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