About the PPI The Progress out of Poverty Index® (PPI®) is a
poverty measurement tool for organizations and businesses with a
mission to serve the poor. The PPI is statistically-sound, yet
simple to use: the answers to 10 questions about a household’s
characteristics and asset ownership are scored to compute the
likelihood that the household is living below the poverty line –
or above by only a narrow margin. With the PPI, organizations
can identify the clients, customers, or employees who are most
likely to be poor or vulnerable to poverty, integrating
objective poverty data into their assessments and strategic
decision-making. Why measure poverty? Your organization may
operate in a highly-impoverished area, but without objective
poverty data on the households you reach, social performance
management will rely on assumptions. Organizations that collect
poverty data from all or a statistically significant sample of
households they reach are able to: - measure poverty outreach
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