The Individual Deprivation Measure: measuring poverty as if gender and inequality matter

Latest Resources

• Planning for prevention: Spotlighting potential gendered implications of COVID-19 in Fiji

  This resource anticipates some of the potential gendered implications of the COVID-19 pandemic in Fiji.

  Mar 30, 2020 Briefs

• Australian Aid Conference Presentation 2020

  The presentations below were delivered by IDM's Helen Suich and the IDM Team at the 2020 Australasian Aid Conference. The presentation was given as part of a panel titled 'Measuring deprivation with an individual and gendered lens'.

  Mar 3, 2020 Presentations

• UNECE working paper: Household-level measurement masks gender inequality across three dimensions of poverty

  In this paper IDM researchers have used individual, multidimensional data collected in poverty hotspots in Fiji in 2015-16 to construct both household and individual measures of deprivation along three dimensions commonly used to measure multidimensional poverty: health, education, and standard of living.

  Jan 15, 2020 Reports

• UNECE working paper: measuring gender inequality within the household using the IDM in Fiji

  The UNECE Work Session on Gender Statistics brings together experts to strengthen gender data.

  Dec 2, 2019 Reports