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Table 2 Poverty headcount ratio at national poverty line by province, percent
Estimated from Vulnerability Surveys
Estimated by LNS
2007
2008
2010
2006
2008
Hà Tĩnh
24.8
21.9
16.7
26
29
Thừa Thiên Huế
16.1
11.7
10.6
14
13
Đắk Lắk
19.0
16.4
14.4
17
22
Total
20.6
17.5
14.4
15.9
14.5
Source: Author’s calculations from vulnerability surveys in Vietnam and Le, Nguyen, and Singh (LNS)
(2014).
The Patterns of Poverty Transitions Across the poor have low incomes and low asset
Groups
levels so they tend to live together and
share their limited resources (see Table
Over the three-year period, the 3).
majority of households stayed nonpoor
There is a tendency that young
(slightly over 62 percent) and the other and old households, headed by young
38 percent was vulnerable to poverty or old persons, are more vulnerable to
at some level. This pattern shows good poverty than middle-aged ones. They
progress in poverty reduction in which are less likely to stay nonpoor and are
a large share of the population rose up, more likely to fall into poverty, fluctuate
approximately 15 percent, and a small around the poverty line, or stay poor.
share of the population fell down at Young households are usually newly
slightly more than 9 percent. Additionally, formed ones, which mean that they also
a tenth of the population moved around have to invest in bearing and caring for
the poverty line (closed to 11 percent) children. Older households are usually
and only a small share stayed poor in all wealthier because they have experience
periods (2.3 percent) (see Table 3).
in agriculture and livestock production
The changes in poverty statuses differ and have accumulated more savings
across the subgroups of the population. and assets. However, older heads are
Poverty is usually associated with a associated with having lower skills and
large-sized family and a higher burden being less healthy subsequently making
of dependency. Nonpoor households them more vulnerable to poverty, which
tend to have fewer members and a lower is confirmed by the result of a t test.
dependency ratio, 4.1 and 0.4 respectively,
The education attainment of a
while those who are poor in at least one household’s head tends to have a negative
period have nearly five members and a relationship with the vulnerability to
higher dependency ratio of 0.5. In fact, poverty. Slightly higher than 56 percent
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