Multidimensional Poverty of Housing Quality: A Spatial Analysis for Districts of Pakistan

Abstract

An increase in living standards and housing quality is impossible without improving the housing quality. Housing quality provides many aspects of shelter and peace of mind. The present study used the quality of housing as an indicator of living standards and explored the deprivation in housing quality based on internal and external dimensions. These dimensions include indicators representing internal and external conditions, public provisions of the housing facilities available to the community, and users' perceptions of these facilities. For all this, we aim to create an index of multidimensional  poverty for the quality of housing using the Alkire and Foster methodology (AF). The analysis is carried out for the Pakistan Social and Living Standards Measurement (PSLM) data, 2019-20. Regional decomposition of the index with spatial analysis is another study contribution. Regional decomposition of the index is the strength of the study.