Table 2 Ten indicators across three dimensions that comprise the Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI)[8]
From: Social determinants of health in India: progress and inequities across states
Dimension | Indicator | Definition |
|---|---|---|
Health | Child death | One or more children born in the household in the last five years have died |
| Â | Child undernutrition | At least one child in the household under the age of 3 is underweight |
Education | Adult education | No household member has completed five or more years of schooling |
| Â | Child not in school | At least one school-aged child is not enrolled in school |
Standard of living | Unimproved water | The drinking water source does not meet the WHO/UNICEF JMP criteria for “improved” |
|  | Unimproved sanitation | The sanitation facilities do not meet the WHO/UNICEF JMP criteria for “improved” The sanitation facilities do not meet the WHO/UNICEF JMP criteria for “improved” |
| Â | Indoor biomass fuel use | The household cooks food with biomass fuels, as defined in the MDGs |
| Â | Low quality housing | The main housing material is kachha or semi-pucca |
| Â | No electricity | The household has no electricity |
| Â | Limited assets | The household has no car or truck and owns at most one of these - bicycle, motorbike, radio, refrigerator, or television |