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of poverty which is poor hardcore, poor and B40 that three of this is under the
national poverty line income (PLI).
Therefore, the Department Of Statistics Malaysia (DOSM) take the initiative
to do the study about poverty issue in research, titled Household Income
Survey (HIS). The indicators that will be measured under HIS such as mean
household income, median household income, sources of income, Gini
coefficient, incidence of poverty and others.
The Implementation & Coordination Unit (ICU) under Prime Minister Office
(PMO) also carry out poverty the studies but rather to get the list of the lower
– income groups (Below 40 as known as B40) to register in the e-Kasihsystem.
e-Kasihsystem is a not a database that show whole household income under
the Poverty Line Income (PLI) because the listing into the e-Kasihdatabase
system is based from some limited resources such as reports from mass-
media, reported by the Government or NGO's Department or other Agencies
and their own nominees who present at the ICU officefor the purpose of this
registration.
Hence the main purpose of this study is to look at the importance and use
of the data reported in the Household Income Survey (HIS) and the e-
KasihSystem in explaining the Poverty Incidence.

2. Methodology
This study uses descriptive analysis to see the situation and poverty rate in
Kelantan. The referenced data are based on the HIS publications in 2009, 2012,
2014 and 2016 and also the data recorded in the e-Kasih system.
HIS wasfirstimplemented in 1974 and conducted in every two years. The
list of residenceselected randomly by using the probabilistic sampling method
that covers all states and administrative districts in Malaysia. This survey covers
all households living in private residences and citizens only.
Cencus of Poor Households (CPH) under ICU was first implemented in June
2008 and conducted continuouslybased on the current number of
registrations for the groups under PLI for the purpose of registering in the e-
Kasih system. The e-Kasih system is also dynamic in which the number of
registered participants and their poverty status will be change from time to
time based on updated information or profile additions in this system.
The main purpose of the selection of these two studies is to see how far
the use of indicators in each of these studies is used in overcoming the poverty
of the state, especially in Kelantan.

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