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The objective of this section is to present the best available data on a wide range of health and related indicators. This should provide health planners and managers with easy access to data from a variety of sources.

Poverty prevalence

Definition	Proportion of people/households living in poverty. Depending on the poverty line and the methodology used there are various estimates of the extent of poverty, therefore caution should be observed in comparing estimates from different sources, and comparative reliability can be assessed from the rank order correlation between different sets of estimates. See also http://www.treasury.gov.za/povertyline/ for addidional work being done on development of a poverty index.
Reference	Bradshaw D, Steyn K, editors. Poverty and Chronic Diseases in South Africa: Technical Report 2001. Medical Research Council; 2002.
Ref. URL	http://www.mrc.ac.za/bod/povertyfinal.pdf
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Indicator Type: -> Socio-Economic