Poverty Mapping And Poverty Analysis In Indonesia

ABSTRACT This paper analyzes poverty-related data in Indonesia at regency and city level. First, poverty mapping is carried out at disaggregated levels by regency or city to visually identify the prevalence of poverty. Second, the relationship between consumption-based poverty and capability-based poverty is examined using principal component regression. This approach clarifies the influence of basic needs availability and other poverty characteristics on consumption-based poverty. Poverty rate, poverty gap and severity poverty are scattered in all regencies and cities, showing the tendency that poverty indices are higher and more severe in eastern islands of the country compared to other regions. In addition to food expenditure, the basic needs and working sector are closely related to consumption-based poverty. The toilet availability, access to safe water and public health services and education, often measured as the dimensions of capability based poverty, are very important to have bearing on consumption-based poverty. To reduce severity of poverty, safe water access is especially the most important factor among other public health variables. Severity poverty also turns out to be correlated with education variables. Completion of elementary and higher education is negatively correlated with severity poverty and more important than food expenditures.