ACCION Poverty Outreach Findings: SOGESOL, Haiti

This paper is the second in a series of poverty assessments performed by ACCION as part of its Poverty Outreach project.

It evaluates the poverty levels of SOGESOL clients relative to the Haitian national and urban populations as well as international poverty lines.

The paper states that:

• SOGESOL clients have a similar poverty profile to the Port-au-Prince population;
• Haitian population has a higher percentage of people below both the national and Portau-Prince poverty lines than the Port-au-Prince and SOGESOL populations;
• Education level varies among poverty categories for both SOGESOL clients and the Haitian population;
• SOGESOL clients are better educated than the broader Haitian population;
• SOGESOL clients have neither extremely low nor very high expenditure levels.

The statistical analysis of data suggests that:

• Correlation between income and expenditure per capita is 0.60;
• Among SOGESOL clients, loan size is only weakly associated with income and expenditure;
• Correlation between loan size and disposable income is stronger at 0.52;
• Correlation between loan size and total assets is significant at 0.67.