How can inclusive data help eradicate poverty?

To eradicate poverty, we must understand lived realities of deprivation and inequality.

On the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty, Equality Insight called for inclusive, multidimensional, individual-level data to become the norm. This video helps explain why.

Household-level measures have many uses – but they also flatten poverty within the household into an average. This isn’t how poverty is experienced by the people living it – so we cannot fully eradicate poverty relying on these measures alone.

What we choose to measure matters.

When we purposefully design our poverty measures to explore the impacts of gender, age, disability status, sexuality, geography and more, we illuminate the lived realities of deprivation, and the many ways individual characteristics can influence and amplify inequality. And when we look beyond financial markers alone and examine poverty across all areas of life, we develop measures that reflect what people experiencing poverty say matters to them.