| 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. |
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