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Monthly average income per capita is calculated by dividing the
total income of households in a reference year by their headcounts on

average of 12 months. Household income is the total amount and value in
kind received by households and members less production costs in a given
period, usually one year.
Formula:

Monthly average Total annual income of households
income per capita = Total population : 12

Household income is the total amount of money and value of assets
after deducting production costs that the household and its members receive
in a certain period, usually 1 year.

Poverty rate is the ratio of the number of people or households whose
income (or expenditure) per capita fall below the poverty line among total

surveyed population and households.

Poverty line refers to the average revenue (or expenditure) per capita
used as a standard to evaluate a poor person or a household. Those whose
income (or expenditure) beneath the poverty line is considered poor
person/household.

 Food poverty line measured as value of a basket of food and

foodstuff needed to provide a person with 2100 Kcal a day.
 General poverty line is the sum of food poverty line and minimum

expense for non-food, i.e. house, clothes, furniture, studying, recreation,
health care, transportation, and telecommunication, etc.

Multi-dimensional poverty households: Multi-dimesional
approached poverty households are households whose monthly average
income per capita is at or below income-based poverty line (welfare poverty
line) and deprives of at least 3 indices for measuring deprivation of access to

basic social services. The multi-dimensional poverty line is defined upon
two criteria: Income-based criteria and basic social services based criteria,
specifically as follows:

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