Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística

Experimental Statistics

About - Evolution of Non-Monetary Indicators of Poverty and Quality of Life in Brazil based on the Consumer Expenditure Survey

The Consumer Expenditure Surveys (POFs), carried out by the IBGE, aim at making information available on the composition of household budgets and on the Brazilian population’s living conditions, including self-perceived quality of life. It also generates database and studies on the population’s nutrition profile.

The results of POF 2017-2018 produced studies on the nutritional assessment of the household availability of food, personal food intake and food security, as well as on the profile of expenditures in Brazil, based on selected indicators, peaking with the assessment of the population´s quality of life, for the first time accomplished under the perspective of two indexes of multidimensional losses or deprivations. To do this, the Loss of Quality of Life Index (IPQV) and the Socio-Economic Performance Index (IDS) were built, as well as a time analysis of their evolution based on the results of POF 2008-2009. As they are new statistics, still in the test phase and under assessment, such indicators were released as Experimental Investigations.

The IPQV and the IDS were obtained from a comprehensive set of non-monetary and subjective indicators, according to the six dimensions of analysis: housing, access to public utility services, health and food, education, access to financial services and standard of living, and transportation and leisure. These dimensions were also used to measure poverty and vulnerability of the population through three new indexes: the Non-Monetary Multidimensional Poverty Index (IPM-NM), the Non-Monetary Multidimensional Vulnerability Index (IVM-NM) and the Multidimensional Poverty Index with Relative Component (IPM-CR), addressed in this experimental study. The results, also compared with those of POF 2008-2009, are part of the assessment of quality of life previously released and are presented by geographic division, by variables associated to eligibility to social interaction and to engage in economic activities, such as schooling, as well as by variables relative to the insertion of the household head in the labor market.

The technical notes enclosed in the publication summarize the general procedures used in the survey´s data collection and handling and describe the conceptual framework and the methodological model applied to those dimensions and the construction of the indexes, among other considerations of methodological nature.

As with the previous publications, the present one can be accessed on the IBGE portal, which also makes available the collection instruments used in both editions of the survey, as well as its microdata, in order to streamline the use of such databases according to different purposes.