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Sanitation If the household does not have 1/28
private toilets or a clean sanitation
system
Floor If the dwelling floor is dirty, sand or 1/28
clay
Cooking fuel If the household cooks using wood, 1/28
coal or manure
Overcrowding If, on average, there are more than 3 1/28
people per room
Assets The household does not own a car, 1/28
tractor or truck and does not own at
least two of the following:
telephone, television, radio,
motorcycle, bicycle and refrigerator

3. Result
National level
In 2014, the incidence of multidimensional poverty among women aged
18 and over at the national level is 18.1%, which corresponds to 2.05 million
poor women. With an incidence of 37.9%, nearly 1.58 million women are
multidimensionally poor in rural areas. In cities, this phenomenon remains less
pronounced (6.5%), i.e. nearly 470,000 women living in multidimensional
poverty. Thus, in 2014, 77.2% of multidimensionally poor women in Morocco
live in rural areas.
Between 2004 and 2014, multidimensional female poverty fell sharply. The
incidence rose from 40.4% in 2004 to 18.1% in 2014 at the national level, from
30.5% to 6.5% in urban areas, and from 69.5% to 37.9% in rural areas. In 2004,
the number of women who were multidimensionally poor was 3.8 million,
representing an average annual reduction of 6.2%.
Furthermore, the decomposition of multidimensional female poverty by
deprivation domain provides information on the sources behind this
phenomenon. Deprivation in terms of school enrolment explains 34.7% of
multidimensional female poverty at the national level; illiteracy contributes up
to 31.6%. As for deprivation in terms of access to basic infrastructure, it
explains 10.7% of this form of poverty, those in terms of housing conditions
9.3%. As for deprivation in terms of economic activity, it contributes 6.9% to
women's multidimensional poverty. This contribution reaches 6.7% for
deprivations in terms of health.

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