Deprivation Calculator

The global Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) is an international measure of acute multidimensional poverty covering over 100 developing countries. It complements traditional monetary poverty measures by capturing the acute deprivations in health, education, and living standards that a person faces simultaneously.

To calculate expected weight-for-length, weight-for-age, and length/height-for-age, the linked spreadsheet includes worksheets with data from the WHO's Simplified field tables. These sheets can be used directly, if necessary.

This project combines the WHO's field tables, with a questionare and formula to capture deprivation on a per-household basis. It uses a google spredsheet

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