The multidimensional view of well-being is receiving growing attention, both in academic research and policy-oriented analysis. This paper examines empirical strategies to measure poverty and inequality in multiple domains, concentrating on two problems in the use of synthetic multidimensional indices: the weighting structure of different functionings and the functional form of the index. These...

In recent decades statistical indices have become a dominant method for measuring many features of the social world. While resulting enumerations are regularly cited by critical human geographers, wider political stakes indexing world remain unaddressed. this article, we theorise indexification as process through which composite statistics transform theoretical constructs into epistemic objects...

Both developed and developing countries face energy poverty issues today. The growing interest over the last few years at scientific level demonstrates importance of problem. It was a practice for many to measure by calculating economic single indicators. In recent years, this increasingly criticized new, more comprehensive indices were developed. Review analysis can help scholars dig deep into...

Available data on farmers’ socioeconomic or poverty status have focused on the use of money-metric measure of income and/or expenditure, an approach that has been criticized. An alternative, proposed to assessing households’ welfare has been to use asset indices; unfortunately, there is dearth of such study in Edo state. This study therefore assessed the socioeconomic status (SES) of farming ho...

This study investigates the empirical validity of the material deprivation indices (MDIs) using a partial criterion variable, namely UHCNIR (unmet health care need due to inadequate resources). This alternative approach helps to assess absolute validity (Type I and II errors) and sources of error in the measurement of poverty for a specific aspect of poverty (in this case inability to receive a...

While we have extensive information on the trends in income poverty, little is known about multidimensional poverty. The paper tries to fill this gap by assessing changes poverty 54 countries since 2000. analysis relies two individual-based indices, G-CSPI and G-M0, which combine three dimensions: education, health, employment, derived through constitutional approach. a distribution-sensitive i...