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Statistics Committee of the Ministry of National Economy

Republic of Kazakhstan

PRACTICE OF KAZAKHSTAN IN GENERATING POVERTY INDICATORS

Switzerland, Geneva, 4-6 May 2015

SMV and IUC as criteria for poverty measurements inKazakhstan

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Food60% (43 items)

Non-food40% (estimation)

Consumption basket (subsistence minimum)

Income Used for Consumption per capitain 2014 = KZT 39,256 or $219.1

Subsistence Minimum Value per capitain 2014 = KZT 19,068 or $106.4

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Main livings standards statistics over time, 2004-20143

SMV per capita, KZT

IUC per capita, KZT

% of people whose income is below subsistence minimum value

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Republic of KazakhstanLivings standards statistics over time, 2004-2014

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5Values of MDG 1 indicators in Kazakhstan (2003-2013)

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Proportion of population below $2.5 purchasing power parity per dayProportion of population below $5 purchasing power parity per day

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6Values of MDG 1 indicators in Kazakhstan (2003-2013)

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Proportion of employed population living below subsistence minimum value

Proportion of employed population living below $2.5 (PPP) per day

Proportion of employed population living below $5 (PPP) per day

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Population subgroups based on 2014 subjective household welfare assessment7

Poor: lacking money for food, clothes and footwear 1

Neither poor nor middle class: enough money to buy food, clothes and footwear and to pay for utilities, however difficult to buy durables 2

Middle class: face no difficulties in buying food, major noon-food goods and services but money is not enough to buy additional housing (apartment, house, summer cottage), expensive car, etc.

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Upper middle class: consume quality food, live in comfort, have income generating job/own business and/or property but have enough free time for rest and leisure

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Rich: sufficient resources (knowledge, health, finance, property, time) for comfortable life

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