Chapter 3: How to Interpret ADePT Results
Table 3.17: Headcount Ratio by Household Head’s Characteristics percent Poverty headcount ratio
Distribution of the poor
Distribution of population
2003
2006
Change
2003
2006
Change
2003
2006
Change
A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
I
Gender Male Female
28.4 34.1
30.0 33.5
1.6 −0.5
69.6 30.4
71.5 28.5
1.9 −1.9
73.3 26.7
73.6 26.4
0.3 −0.3
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+
0 18.5 33.4 26.9 31.6 28.5 30.1 32.8 26.0 24.2 32.1
0 8.2 18.4 36.2 31 29.9 28.2 31.1 30.0 32.4 32.4
0 −10.3 −15.0 9.3 −0.6 1.4 −1.9 −1.7 4.0 8.2 0.2
0 0.3 1.3 3.3 5.7 9 11.9 12.7 7.7 8.7 39.2
0 0.2 0.7 3.1 4.8 8.2 10.7 12.2 11.2 7.6 41.4
0 −0.2 −0.7 −0.2 −0.9 −0.8 −1.3 −0.5 3.5 −1.1 2.2
0 0.5 1.2 3.7 5.4 9.5 11.9 11.6 8.9 10.8 36.5
0.1 0.6 1.1 2.7 4.7 8.5 11.7 12.2 11.6 7.3 39.6
0.1 0 −0.1 −1.0 −0.6 −1.0 −0.2 0.6 2.7 −3.5 3.1
14 15 16 17 18 19 20
Education Elementary or less Incomplete secondary Secondary Vocational-technical Special secondary Higher education Total
44.2 38.4 33.3 30.2 26 17.5 29.9
43.1 38.7 32.5 36.5 26.9 21.9 31.0
−1.0 0.3 −0.7 6.3 0.9 4.4 1.0
12.4 12.7 42.9 8.4 9.9 13.7 100
10.2 10.0 40.1 11.7 11.2 16.9 100
−2.2 −2.6 −2.9 3.4 1.3 3.1 n.a.
8.4 9.9 38.6 8.3 11.4 23.4 100
7.3 8.0 38.1 9.9 12.8 23.8 100
−1.1 −1.9 −0.5 1.7 1.5 0.3 n.a.
Characteristic of household head Poverty line = GEL 75.4 1 2
Source: Based on ADePT Poverty and Inequality modules using Integrated Household Survey of Georgia 2003 and 2006. Note: n.a. = not applicable.
I depict the subgroup population distributions, or the population percentage contained in each subgroup. Row 20 shows that overall headcount ratio increases from 29.9 percent in 2003 [20,A] to 31.0 percent in 2006 [20,B], reflecting a 1.0 percentage point increase [20,C] in the headcount ratio. We see that 28.4 percent of male household heads [1,A] are poor. In other words, the headcount ratio for this population subgroup is 28.4 percent. The headcount ratio of the same group in 2006 is 30.0 percent [1,B]. So the headcount ratio for the population in the male-headed household increased by 1.6 percentage points [1,C] from 2003 to 2006. In row 4, we find that 18.5 percent [4,A] of the population from households headed by someone in the 20–24 age group is poor. The headcount ratio for the same population subgroup in 2006 is 8.2 percent [4,B], a
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