Introduction

In 2005, the Department of Statistics of the Ministry of Finance and Economic Planning which later became the National Institute of Statistics of Rwanda, carried out the second Household Living Conditions Survey (EICV-2). Data from this 2005/06 survey were at national and provincial levels compared with the 2000/01 results.  

The two surveys captured information on household’s income, production, consumption and expenditure including the demographic, social and economic characteristics of the population such as employment, health and level of education. 

Calculation methodology

There exist several methods to estimate poverty. During the analysis of the EICV-2005/06, the method that was used considered the poverty line as the level of costs that covers the minimum adult's basic needs: this means that a person must consume a well selected meal that provides at least 2500 calories per day, and must spend also on the basic non food products.

The EICV1 (2000/01) estimated this cost at 175 Frws for each adult per day using the January 2001 prices. In EICV2 (2005/06), the same methodology was applied to define the poverty line. This cost was then estimated at 250 Frws per day to cover the same needs by using the January 2006 prices.

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