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Mức sống dân cư và an toàn xã hội - Living standard and social security 351
EXPLANATION OF TERMINOLOGY, CONTENT AND METHODOLOGY
OF SOME STATISTICAL INDICATORS ON LIVING STANDARD
LIVING STANDARD
Income of the household
is total sum of money and kinds that household and its
members get in a given time (usually a year), including: (1) Revenue from salary; (2)
Revenue from agriculture, forestry and fishing activities (less intermediate cost and
production tax); (3) Revenue from non agriculture, forestry, and fishing activities (less
intermediate cost and production tax); (4) Other revenues which are calculated in income
(excluding saving withdraw, net lending, receivable debt payment and capital transfer).
Household expenditure
includes self-sufficiency of food and non-food and other
expenses (gift, contribution, etc.), excluding production cost, production tax, savings,
loans, debt payment, and others.
Household expenditure per capita
shows all the money and the value of items
spent and consumed by a household per capita in a given period of time (usually for a
month or a year).
Monthly expenditure
per capita of household
=
Total expenditure of household in a certain
reporting period
Number of persons of household in the same reporting
period x Number of months of the reporting period
Poverty line
refers to the average revenue (or expenditure) per capita used as a
standard to evaluate a poor person or a household. Those whose income (or expenditure)
beneath the poverty line is considered poor person and household.
*
Food poverty line
measured as value of a basket of food and foodstuff needed to
provide a person with 2100 Kcal a day.
*
General poverty line
is the sum of food poverty line and minimum expense for
non-food, i.e. house, clothes, furniture, studying, recreation, health care, transportation,
telecommunication, etc.
Food poverty rate
is percentage of households having average income/expenditure per
capita under food poverty line. Its formula is as follows:
Food poverty rate
in the period (%)
=
Number of households having average
income expenditure per capita under food poverty
line in the period
x
100
Total households in the period
General poverty rate
is percentage of people having average expenditure per capita
under general poverty line. Its formula is as follows:
General
poverty rate in
the period (%)
=
Number of people having average expenditure
per capita under general poverty line in the period
x
100
Total population in the period