Chapter 3
How to Interpret ADePT Results
In this chapter, we discuss how to interpret tables and graphs generated by the ADePT analysis program. The chapter is organized in six sections: • In the first section, we discuss how to interpret results at the country level, decomposing across rural and urban areas. • In the second and third sections, we move into analyses at a more disaggregated level: across subnational regions in the second section and across various population subgroups—such as household characteristics, employment situation, and so forth—in the third section. • In the fourth and fifth sections, we perform sensitivity and dominance analyses. These are useful for policy evaluation, because results in the first two sections are based on many assumptions, such as choice of poverty line and selection of methodologies for measuring poverty and inequality. • It is always important to check how robust these results are with respect to the assumptions. For example, we may assume the poverty line to be a certain level of income or per capita expenditure and find poverty decreasing over time. Then how can we be sure that poverty has not increased for other possible poverty lines? • Insights revealed in the first five sections may be helpful when preparing any report on poverty and inequality. • In the final section, we discuss some advanced analyses.
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