This paper explores the axiomatic foundation of multidimensional poverty indices. Departing from the income approach which measures poverty by aggregating shortfalls of incomes from a predetermined poverty-line income, a multidimensional index is a numerical representation of shortfalls of basic needs from some pre-speci®ed minimum levels. The class of subgroup consistent poverty indices introd...

conclusions the 11 item hausa-mspss index is valid for the assessment of perceived social support among stroke survivors in nigeria. results based on expert panel, clinicians’ review and patients’ feedback, the 12 item hausa-mspss had sufficient face, content and criterion validity. in reliability analysis, the cronbach’s alpha was 0.781. in test-retest reliability analysis, the minimum kappa v...

The celebrated Gini(-Simpson) biodiversity index has found very useful applications in ecology, bio-environmetrics, econometry, psychometry, genetics, and lately in bioinformatics as well. In such applications, mostly, categorical data models, without possibly an ordering of the categories, crop up, which may preempt routine use of conventional measures of quantitative diversity analysis. Furth...

This paper draws on a recent household survey to examine the incidence and depth of poverty in the Solomon Islands and Vanuatu. It replicates the Multidimensional Poverty Index recently developed by the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative. This represents the first time that the Multidimensional Poverty Index is calculated for the Solomon Islands and the first time that it is report...

In recent decades, measures of child well-being have evolved from single dimension to multidimensional measures. Multi-dimensional measures deepen and broaden our understanding of child well-being and inform us of areas of neglect. Child well-being in China today is measured through proxy measures of household need. This paper discusses the evolution of child well-being measures more generally,...

Widespread interest in time-series similarity search has made more in need of efficient technique, which can reduce dimensionality of the data and then to index it easily using a multidimensional structure. In this paper, we introduce a technique, which we called grid representation, based on a grid approximation of the data. We propose a lower bounding distance measure that enables a bitmap ap...

Several indexing methods have been proposed to encode tree structures and path structures of XML, which are generally called structure indexes. To efficiently evaluate XML queries, it is indispensable to integrate tree structure and path structure indexes as a multidimensional index. Previous work of XML indexing have often developed specialized data structures tailored to some query patterns t...

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is defined by persistent airflow limitation that is usually progressive [1], and its severity has long been classified using forced expiratory volume in 1 s (FEV1) % predicted. Although levels of FEV1 were often reported to predict mortality, the observation that other pulmonary and extrapulmonary variables also predicted mortality led to the develop...

Most of the remaining unresolved issues in poverty analysis are related directly or indirectly to the multidimensional nature and dynamics of poverty (Thorbecke, 2005). Analysis on multidimensional poverty has occupied much attention of economists and policymakers, particularly since the writing of (Sen, 1976) and the rising of data availability for relevant research purpose. A significant deve...