Poverty Score Card (PSC) designed by the World Bank and used by the Government of Pakistan (GoP). PSC is based on 13 indicators used to measure access to basic needs. GoP hase used PSC to identify people living below poverty line in all the districts of Pakistan. This data is used to provide subsidy to poorest of the poor under Benazir Income Support Programme (BISP). Complete data is stored in the website of National Database Registration Authority (NADRA).
The EU uses different poverty measures.
The at-risk-of-poverty rate is the share of people with an equivalised disposable income (after social transfer) below a threshold, which is set at 60 % of the national median equivalised disposable income after social transfers. Secondary income measures are the at-risk-of-poverty rate before social transfers and the persistent at-risk-of-poverty rate. Its calculation requires a longitudinal instrument, through which the individuals are followed over four years.
The material deprivation rate is an indicator in EU-SILC that expresses the inability to afford some items considered by most people to be desirable or even necessary to lead an adequate life. The indicator distinguishes between individuals who cannot afford a certain good or service, and those who do not have this good or service for another reason, e.g. because they do not want or do not need it.
The AROPE indicator ("people at risk of poverty or social exclusion") is about people living in households with very low work intensity and people severely materially deprived. The non-monetary components of the headline indicator, which are material deprivation and work intensity, are primarily examined. These measures of poverty and social exclusion are analysed together with the monetary component (at-risk-of poverty rate) in order to acquire a deeper understanding of poverty.
See: http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/statistics_explained/index.php/Glossary:At-risk-of-poverty_threshold
See also: http://www.eapn.eu/en/what-is-poverty/how-is-poverty-measured
Poverty Measure Index is differ from country to country, researcher to researcher. Since poverty is socio-economic problem, its measurement index must contain the variables/indicators such as income, employment, standard of living/consumption pattern and health care.
Unlike other indexes that are used to measure poverty or basic needs deprivation like Human Development Index (HDI), Poverty Headcount Index (PHI), Poverty Gap Index and Zakat Efficiency Index (ZEIN), to name a few, Multi-dimensional Poverty Index, or MPI for short, is rather simple and straight forward. It is built-up on three (3) dimensions with ten (10) indications. While the first and second dimension, Education and Health respectively, has two indicators, the third dimension, Living Standards, has six (dimensions).
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