A Mixed-method Taxonomy of Child Poverty: A Case Study from
Rural Ethiopia - Date: 04 Apr 2012 - Series: Working Paper 76 -
Author: Keetie Roelen and Laura Camfield - Download the file (
English, 339 KB, PDF document ) Summary: There are long-standing
debates about how to measure poverty and well-being and how to
classify household and individuals in terms of poverty status.
This paper informs those debates. It presents a taxonomy of
poverty and vulnerability that has been developed from a mixed
methods study of rural children and households in Ethiopia.
Qualitative information is used to inform and development of
quantitative indicators that will assess poverty and
vulnerability. The taxonomy was developed using a ’generic
construction process’ that includes five steps: identification
of the purposes of the study, formulation of a conceptual
framework, selection and formulation of both the domains and
then the indicators, and finally, construction of outcome
measures. The data used in this construction proce