This study uses Namibia’s 2009/10 Household Income and Expenditure Survey to
construct an easy-to-use scorecard that estimates the likelihood that a household has
expenditure below a given poverty line. Field workers can collect responses to the
scorecard’s ten simple indicators and tally scores on paper in about ten minutes. The
scorecard’s bias and precision are reported for a range of poverty lines. The simple
poverty scorecard is a practical way for pro-poor programs in Namibia to measure
poverty rates, to track changes in poverty rates over time, and to target services.