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number of deprivations above the poverty line, set by this approach at "at least
30% of the basic deprivations due to unmet needs in the above-mentioned
areas".
The MPI we retained after discussing the context of women in morocco
and considering data availability is structured using 12 indicators covering four
dimensions: education, health, economic activity and living conditions. Each
dimension includes one or more items of well-being that express a situation
of deprivation of women in our case. These dimensions are also weighted with
a quarter each (1/4) and each item in a dimension is proportionally weighted
to the number of items in the same dimension (see table below). In this sense,
health education and economic activity indicators each have a weight of 1/4
and living standards indicators a weight of 1/28 (see table below) The
measurement approach consists of:
i Measure basic deprivation in relation to each poverty factor
ii Establish a composite deprivation index summarizing all
elementary deprivations;
iii Calculate multidimensional poverty indices. (MPI)
Implemented on the exhaustiveness of the 2014 and 2004 censuses
data, the retained national MPI of women has the following structure:
Dimension Indicators Cut-off Weight

Years of If the woman is under 40 years old 1/4
schooling and has not completed five years of
schooling
Illiteracy If the woman is over 40 years old 1/4
and is illiterate
Disability If the woman is unable to perform 1/4
any of the following organic

functions: vision, hearing, walking,
cognitive ability (remembering or
concentrating), self-care and
communication
Unemployment If the woman is unemployed 1/8

Unpaid work If the woman is employed as a 1/8
family worker

Drinking water If the household does not have 1/28 1/4
access to clean water within 30
minutes of walking from home
Electricity If the household has no electricity 1/28

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