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line (welfare poverty line) or whose monthly average income per capita
is above income-based poverty line but below minimum living standard
and deprives of at least 3 indices for measuring deprivation of access to
basic social services. The multi-dimensional poverty line is defined upon
two criteria, including income-based criteria and basic-social-service-

based criteria as follows:
Income-based criteria:

+ Income-based minimum living standard is the income level that

guarantees to afford basic minimumneeds for a person to survive,
including food, foodstuff demands and non-food consumption suitable
with socio-economic situation of the province/city directly under central
management in each period.

+ Income-based poverty line (also welfare poverty line) is the
income level which household is considered as income poverty if its
income is lower than that level.

Criteria for deprivation of accessing to basic social services:

+ 5 basic social services include: Health, Education, Housing,
Clean water and sanitation and Information accessibility.

+ 10 indicators for measuring level of deprivation:(1) Adult
education; (2) Child school attendance; (3) Accessibility to health care
services; (4) Health insurance; (5) Quality of house; (6) Housing area per
capita; (7) Drinking water supply; (8) Hygienic toilet/latrine; (9) Use of

telecommunication services; (10) Assets for information accessibility.

Monthly average income per capita is calculated by dividing the
total income of household in a reference year by the number of
household members and by 12 months. Household income is the total
amount of money and in-kind value received by household and
household members after deducting production cost in a given period,
usually one year.

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