A Unified Approach to Measuring Poverty and Inequality
Figure 3.2: Age-Gender Poverty Pyramid
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2 1 0 1 2 Share in total population, %
Total population
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30 38 31 27 29 25 22 21 29 28 28 29 30 30 29 30 34 31 34
95 90 85 80 75 70 65 60 55 50 45 40 35 30 25 20 15 10 5
Age in years
33 31 36 31 31 30 23 23 25 28 26 31 29 29 31 34 35 32 31
Male poverty rate
95 90 85 80 75 70 65 60 55 50 45 40 35 30 25 20 15 10 5
Female poverty rate
Age in years
2003
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Poor population
Source: Based on ADePT Poverty and Inequality modules using Integrated Household Survey of Georgia 2003 and 2006.
simultaneously. However, it can be used to analyze other subgroups with proper justification. As before, the variable for our analysis is per capita consumption expenditure in lari, and the poverty line is set at GEL 75.4 per month. The outside vertical axes denote the age of the members in years, and the horizontal axis presents the share of the population. The figure is divided vertically by gender: the right-hand side represents males and the left-hand side represents females. The distance from the middle to each side in dark gray denotes the total population share in that age group. The distance in light gray is the proportion of poor people in that age group of the total number of poor, again for each gender. Data are aggregated in five-year increments, and each increment is displayed as a bar centered on the highest age in the increment. The data for ages 25 to 30 years, for example, are represented by the bar at 30 years. For those zero to five years of age, the shares of both males and females are 2.2 percent, and nearly 0.7 percent of both males and females in that age group reside in
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