6.4.4 Poverty line income
An official estimation of the income that constitutes the poverty line is not established in
Laos. Estimation of the poverty line in Laos is mostly gauged from expenditure. Official per
capita expenditure in LECS4 established levels of poverty. The poverty line was obtained by
taking the mean per capita expenditure for poor households, based on their expenditure
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The means were taken separately in four regions, both urban and rural, because poverty
expenditure in LECS4 is organized in the same way. Therefore, the poverty rates in this study
match those using the expenditure poverty rates in LECS4.
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