POVERTY PROFILE OF TIMOR LESTE

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POVERTY PROFILE OF TIMOR - LESTE

• Presented by
• 1.Americo
• 2.Cesar
• 3.San Myint - Myanmar

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Map of Timor-Leste
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Introduction

• Poverty Assessment survey was conducted in 2001.
  This survey is nationally representative of 1800
  households from the population. Data collection
  was undertaken between August and November 2001.
• We have defined a poverty line as the minimum
  expenditure needed to purchase a food basket that
  provides 2100 calorie per person per day and a
  allowance for essential non food consumption.
• The poverty line is estimated US 15.44 per
  capita per month in 2001.

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Table 1 Number of population by non poor poor
by urban/ rural
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Table 2 Percentage of non poor poor by
Urban/Rural
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Table 3Number of population by non poor poor
by Region

• The west region is home to one fifth of the
  population , but it accounts for
  
• a quarter of the poor.
• The east region accounts for a quarter of the
  population but less than one fifth
  
• of population

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Table 4 Percentage of non poor poor by
Region
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Table 5 Number of population by non poor
poor by Strata
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Table 6 Percentage of non poor poor by Strata
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Table 7.Poverty rate by urban and Rural

• The accident of poverty is 39.7, amounting to
  328630 individual
  
• The poverty gap equals to 11.8 and the severity
  measure of poverty is 4.9
  
• Rural areas are poor than urban areas
• Consumption of rural areas are more equal than
  urban areas
  

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Graphic 1 National Poverty Rate
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Graphic 2 Poverty Rate by Urban and Rural
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Table 8. Poverty rate by Region

• According headcount Index, The west region is the
  poorest among the region
  
• The west region is the least

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• Using the household size measure, poverty
  increases with household size.
  
• In the most cases large households with more
  non-earning dependents
  

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Poverty Rate by Householdsize
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Table 10Demographic Characteristics of poor
non poor Household, 2001
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Demographic Characteristics

• Average Household Size in Poor Household is
  larger than Non Poor Household
  
• Nationwide, Three in five persons without save
  sanitation and without safe
  
• Drinking water. Three in four persons live in
  without electricity
  
• In Urban areas, 70 percent of household has
  access to these services
  
• In Rural areas, 25 percent for drinking, 37
  percent for sanitation and 61 percent
  
• for electricity

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Table 11 Head Count Index by Education Level of
household Head
Note Close to one in two persons are poor in
household where the household As not completed pr
imary education. Source Poverty Assessment surv
ey 2001
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Poverty Rate by Education Level of Household Head
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The Last Words

• Thank you for UN-SIAP and BPS-Jakarta
• To All of you be here, enjoy your life to your
  country.
  
• Obrigado, for you attention