Ordinal Comparison of Multidimensional Deprivation: Theory and Application

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to present deprivation in urban Brazil in a multidimensional perspective with dimensions related to household’s objective information, assets in the household, subjective evaluation concerning the dwelling and expenses. Design/methodology/approach – The author used factorial analysis applied to the Brazilian Household Budget Survey. Most dimensions showed a positive correlation with income, while for others it was not observed any significant difference between income ranges. Some types of deprivation specially touched low-income households, while other dimensions differentiated middle-income households, or even higher income households. The author applied a fuzzy perspective to define deprivation membership in each dimension with the use of a modified logistic function. The author observed that households with similar income faced different levels of deprivation in many dimensions. Findings – The author showed that there were significant differences in household’s expense preferences and profiles linked to these findings. Households with high levels of food deprivation relatively spend more on household’s rent, taxes and services, indicating that shelter and then food in the household are the very basic goods. Larger relative expenses with food in the household indicated higher levels of deprivation in all other dimensions, indicating that due to these higher food expenditures, the households could not overcome the deprivation in other dimensions. Households that spend more on smoke and gambling faced higher deprivation in most dimensions, suggesting different expenses priorities, less household oriented. Originality/value – To the best of the knowledge, this is the first attempt to link multidimensional deprivation and expenses profile for Brazilian data.

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The effect of correlation on ordinal comparison of discrete event dynamic systems

Proceedings of 35th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control ◽

10.1109/cdc.1996.573659 ◽

2002 ◽

Author(s):

Liyi Dai ◽

Chun-Hung Chen

Keyword(s):

Dynamic Systems ◽

Discrete Event ◽

Discrete Event Dynamic Systems ◽

Ordinal Comparison ◽

Event Dynamic

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Multidimensional Relative Poverty of Farmers in Tibetan Areas – Based on a Data Analysis on Micro Surveys

Proceedings of Business and Economic Studies ◽

10.26689/pbes.v4i6.2866 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 4 (6) ◽

pp. 84-90

Author(s):

Shilian Zhu

Keyword(s):

Poverty Reduction ◽

Multidimensional Poverty ◽

Poverty Index ◽

Absolute Poverty ◽

Relative Poverty ◽

One Dimensional ◽

Multidimensional Poverty Index ◽

Head Of Household ◽

Multidimensional Deprivation ◽

Per Capita

In 2020, the issue of absolute poverty has been solved, and China is building a well-off society in an all-round way. The issue of relative poverty is an important content of poverty reduction. Based on a survey data from Danba County in October 2020, this paper uses the AF method to calculate the incidence of multidimensional poverty and the multidimensional poverty index. The results showed that 44.65% of the farmers have multidimensional deprivation of any three indicators of relative poverty, and 2.79% of the farmers have serious multidimensional deprivation; the incidence of one-dimensional poverty in terms of “educational level index of head of household,” “per capita non-transfer income of households in 2019,” and “per capita household income in 2019” is the highest; at the same time, the contribution rate of the three indicators to the multidimensional poverty index is also higher than other indicators. Therefore, several suggestions have been put forward to alleviate the multidimensional relative poverty in the region from the aspects of industry development and education.

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