Speaking at the launching ceremony, Union Minister for Labour, Immigration and and Population U Thein Swe has called for effectively helping the people facing the disadvantages in townships making the best use the date of the report.
The ministry is distributing the data in the report online and offline.
The Multidimensional Welfare in Myanmar report uses detailed data available in the 2014 Myanmar Population and Housing Census, which covers a wide range of topics than most censuses. This includes demographic characteristics, disability and mortality, literacy and education, employment and education, housing conditions, as well as household assets and amenities.
Myanmar’s national measure of multidimensional welfare is referred to as the “Multidimensional Disadvantage Index” (MDI).
To adapt the needs of Myanmar, the report uses the term “disadvantage” to refer to deprivations in a particular domain or indicator—i.e. a household is considered to have a disadvantage if its members fail to meet a cut-off in an indicator.
The MDI consists of 14 non-monetary indicators from 6 domains (education, employment, health, water and sanitation, housing and assets) chosen through a two-stage consultative process beginning in September 2017.
Spatial diversity of disadvantage occurs not just at the state and region level but also at the township level within each region, according to the report.
The Multidimensional Welfare in Myanmar report provides useful information for development policy in three areas. First, MDI is a new measure of identifying people’s needs from various non-monetary perspectives and provides a multidimensional view of people’s well-being in Myanmar.
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Translated by Myat Thandar Aung
PHOTO: MNA
Ref; The Global New Light of Myanmar
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