Table 1.
Dimensions, indicators, deprivation cut-offs, and indicators’ weight.
Fig 1.
Sample selection flow chart.
Table 2.
Percentage of people deprived in each indicator of the MPI by social groups in India.
Table 3.
Multidimensional poverty estimates for the social groups in India.
Map 1.
Multidimensional poverty index across the States and Union Territories in India, 2015–16.
Source: Authors’ compilation based on data from NFHS-4, 2015–16. The Map was developed by the authors using QGIS Version 3.24.0, and the map was cross verified with the India map and its States and Union Territories’ boundaries as shown in the official website of Survey of India: https://indiamaps.gov.in/soiapp/.
Map 2.
Multidimensional Poverty Index across the States and Union Territories in India by Social Groups: (a) ST (b) SC (c) OBC (d) Others, 2015–16.
Source: Authors’ compilation based on data from NFHS-4, 2015–16. The Map was developed by the authors using QGIS Version 3.24.0, and the map was cross verified with the India map and its States and Union Territories’ boundaries as shown in the official website of Survey of India: https://indiamaps.gov.in/soiapp/.
Table 4.
Multidimensional poverty across the States and Union Territories by social groups.
Fig 2.
Social group-wise contribution to headcount ratio (H) and adjusted headcount ratio (M0).
Fig 3.
Decomposition of multidimensional poverty index by the three dimensions and by the social groups.
Table 5.
Contribution of each indicator to multidimensional poverty index across social groups.