A Simple Poverty Scorecard for Haiti

How poor are participants in development projects in Haiti? Based on data from a national survey, this paper presents an easy-to-use, objective poverty scorecard that uses 10 simple indicators to estimate the likelihood that a participant lives on less than $1/day. With 90 percent confidence, estimated poverty rates are correct within +/–1.9 percentage points. With the low-tech scorecard, field workers can compute scores by hand in real time, helping programs target services, track changes in poverty over time, and report on poverty rates.