Espinoza-Delgado, JoséSilber, Jacques2025-01-242025-01-242023-03-11José Espinoza-Delgado & Sebastian Vollmer, 2023. "Multidimensional poverty and deprivation: using individual versus household data," Chapters, in: Jacques Silber (ed.), Research Handbook on Measuring Poverty and Deprivation, chapter 39, pages 420-429, Edward Elgar Publishing9781800883444https://doi.org/10.4337/9781800883451.00053https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14468/25490Most existing multidimensional poverty indices, like the global MPI, use the household as the unit of identification of the multi-dimensionally poor, meaning that the multidimensional poverty status of the household is equated with the multidimensional poverty status of all its members. Such an approach ignores intra-household inequalities, which are crucial, among other things, for understanding and quantifying child poverty and gender inequality. Consequently, in this chapter, we stress that one cannot be indifferent to how deprivations are distributed among household members and that there are good reasons to think about moving from the household to the individual when analyzing and estimating multidimensional poverty, especially if the goal is to adequately monitor progress towards meeting Target 1.2 and Goal 5 of the SDGs.eninfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess53 Ciencias Económicascapítulo de librogender inequalityindividual-based poverty indexintra-household inequalitiesmultidimensional poverty