A Unified Approach to Measuring Poverty and Inequality
Table 3.16: Mean and Median Per Capita Consumption Expenditure, Growth, and Gini Coefficient, by Household Characteristics Mean per capita consumption expenditure
Median per capita consumption expenditure
2003 (GEL)
2006 (GEL)
Change (%)
2003 (GEL)
2006 (GEL)
Change (%)
2003
2006
Change
A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
I
Gender Male Female
127.2 122.9
126.6 124.3
−0.5 1.1
106.7 98.9
104.3 100.4
−2.2 1.5
33.7 36.5
34.8 37.0
1.1 0.5
3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13
Age 15–19 20–24 25–29 30–34 35–39 40–44 45–49 50–54 55–59 60–64 65+
110.8 188.0 121.1 130.1 121.3 127.9 127.6 121.5 134.7 130.5 122.8
217.8 223.5 153.9 121.7 124.2 128.5 132.7 120.7 132.8 123.0 121.8
96.6 18.9 27.1 −6.5 2.4 0.5 4.0 −0.6 −1.4 −5.7 −0.8
90.0 131.7 114.8 111.4 103.9 109.7 102.9 100.9 117.0 109.4 100.9
150.7 188.3 121.9 98.1 105.1 105.1 104.4 105.0 104.2 102.5 99.9
67.3 43.0 6.2 −12.0 1.2 −4.2 1.4 4.1 −10.9 −6.4 −1.0
16.2 40.6 32.1 33.2 32.7 33.8 35.7 34.4 33.5 32.3 35.1
31.7 35.0 33.8 38.1 34.3 35.3 36.2 32.6 38.0 34.3 34.8
15.5 −5.6 1.7 4.8 1.6 1.5 0.5 −1.8 4.5 2.0 −0.3
14 15 16 17 18 19 20
Education Elementary or less Incomplete secondary Secondary Vocational-technical Special secondary Higher education Total
101.3 109.5 116.2 127.7 134.4 153.7 126.1
101.6 106.7 118.6 116.3 127.5 155.1 126.0
0.4 −2.6 2.1 −8.9 −5.2 0.9 −0.1
80.9 90.8 97.3 107.1 113.1 129.7 104.7
84.6 90.3 99.6 97.5 106.1 123.7 103.3
4.5 −0.5 2.3 −9.0 −6.2 −4.7 −1.4
36.5 34.5 33.7 34.6 33.9 31.9 34.4
37.5 33.4 34.1 34.6 33.0 36.0 35.4
1.0 −1.0 0.4 0.0 −1.0 4.1 0.9
Characteristic of household head
Gini coefficient
Poverty line = GEL 75.4 1 2
Source: Based on ADePT Poverty and Inequality modules using Integrated Household Survey of Georgia 2003 and 2006.
Headcount Ratio by Household Head’s Characteristics Table 3.17 analyzes poverty by population subgroup according to various household head characteristics. The poverty line is set at GEL 75.4 per month. Table rows report categories for three household head characteristics: gender, age, and education level. Columns A, B, and C analyze the poverty headcount ratios for 2003, 2006, and the change between those years. Columns D, E, and F outline the distribution of poor people across the subgroups, with the number in the cell being the proportion of all poor people in the country contained in each subgroup. We can also call this the subgroup’s percentage contribution to overall poverty, or the headcount ratio times the population share included in that group. Columns G, H, and
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