Sentence examples for poverty classifications from inspiring English sources
In three out of nine focus groups, women reported feeling concerned about how the poverty classifications were made.
Poverty classifications were made by voucher program staff who visited the village and went door-to-door assessing poverty levels based on a set grading scale prior to the start of the program.
A participant's community poverty classification was thereby determined by the block group in which he or she reside, and not by his or her individual circumstances.
The poverty grading tool used to target voucher recipients in the programme was also not validated against the UBOS poverty classification before the roll-out of the programme; hence, there may be differences in the identification of the poor using the two tools.
On Sunday, Al-Jazeera took a look at the Indian government's announcement that it would be re-defining its official classification of poverty and what it means to be poor, just one day after a World Bank report said India's anti-poverty programmes were failing because of corruption.
We are grateful to Jim Todd for statistical advice and to Caroline Kabaria for classification of poverty index.
In legal terms, poverty is not a "suspect classification".
To accommodate all conditions, and not just those related to poverty, we expand the existing classification by subdividing the group of Type I diseases (0≥IRF<3) into three groups: conditions unrelated to economic development (Type Ic, 0.66≥IRF<3), moderately affluence-related conditions (Type Ib, 0.33≥IRF<0.66), and strongly affluence-related conditions (Type Ia, IRF<0.33).
Poverty was measured using the US Census Bureau classification system to categorize participants based on household income and family composition.
We provide a novel classification of households based on poverty duration, which distinguishes chronic poor, transient poor, future poor, and never poor.
This is similar to the classification of households living below the poverty line.
