POVERTY AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT MONITORING SYSTEM IN KARNATAKA

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POVERTY AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT MONITORING SYSTEM
IN KARNATAKA

• A PRESENTATION

A PRESENTATION
A PRESENTATION
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POVERTY AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT MONITORING SYSTEM

• To assess the changes in the poverty and human
  development levels of the people
• To enable the government to make more informed
  decisions concerning the poor

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PHDMS AN INSTITUTIONAL MECHANISM

• Human Development Division was set up in the
  Planning Department with a nucleus technical
  staff
• An advisory group under the chairpersonship of
  the Chief Secretary was constituted with members
  within the government representing critical Human
  Development Sectors besides external resource
  persons

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MONITORING INITIATIVES

• A list of input-process-output indicators in
  areas such as income, consumption, access to
  services, wages and prices, employment and
  unemployment, demography and health literacy and
  education were identified indicating the source,
  periodicity and regional dissaggregation
• The indicators selected for periodical monitoring
  originate from different sources with divergent
  regional disaggregation and periodicity

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• Following are the indicators chosen for the
  purpose of monitoring
• Proportion of population below poverty line
• Proportion of hourseholds which have access to
  safe drinking water, households living in pucca
  houses, households which have access to
  electricity and toilet facilities
• Agricultural and non agricultural wage rates,
  retail prices of essential commodities, wholesale
  prices of agricultural commodities, district
  income and its composition
• Status and composition of employment, proportion
  of working children, labour productivity
• Infant mortality rates, malnutrition among
  children, couple protection rate, institutional
  delivery, maternal mortality rate, life
  expectancy at birth
• Literacy levels, enrolment ratio, proportion of
  out of school children, drop out rates

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QUARTERLY BULLETIN ON PRICES AND WAGES

• Quarterly bulletin on prices and wages is brought
  out to periodically monitor changes in the cost
  of living and its impact on real wages of the
  agricultural labourers
• Directorate of economics and statistics collects
  data on wage rates by gender, occupation, type
  and category of agricultural land, simple average
  wage rate for increase in the cost of living
  reported by the consumer price index for
  agricultural labourers

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CHAPTER ON HUMAN DEVELOPMENT IN STATES ECONOMIC
SURVEY

• A new chapter on poverty and human development
  has been introduced in the states economic
  survey
• The chapter covers present status of Karnataka in
  terms of latest available indicators such as
  poverty estimates, liveracy and poverty rates,
  employment and unemployment status, nutrition
  status, access to services
• Chapter also discusses apart from current status
  of indicators, policies and programmes for human
  development and policy imperatives

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KARNATAKAS HUMAN DEVELOPMENT REPORT

• Karnataka is the second state to bring out state
  level Human Development Report in 1999 next to
  Madhya Pradesh.
• KHDR 1999 primarily a status report provides a
  well organised data base covering a wide range of
  human development index.
• Major highlight of the KHDR 1999 is computation
  of district level estimates of poverty and human
  development issues.
• Karnataka after its first report in 1999 has
  initiated preparation of its second human
  development report in 2004.

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• 5. KHDR II has a main theme and two sub themes.
• Main theme
• Investing in human development.
• Sub theme
• Sectoral outcomes for the vulnerable (population
  below poverty line, SCs and STs, women and
  children)
• Efficiency in delivery mechanism governance,
  decentralisation and community participation.

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MAJOR DATA CONSTRAINTS

• Important data such as life expectancy at birth,
  adult literacy rates which are computed from
  census are not available annually or during the
  decennium. Even the census reports are published
  after a substantial time lag.
• Sample registration system provides information
  on most of the indicators required for the
  country and the states but cannot be used to
  compute indices at district and sub district
  level. This is because the sample size is not
  large enough to generate sub state level
  indicators.
• Though some routine but crucial data are
  available on a continuous basis which are
  compiled at the district level, there is need to
  ensure accuracy and reliability of such data as
  such data are not adequately scrutinized.

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• Reliable estimates of state domestic product,
  incidence of poverty and unemployment are
  difficult to obtain in their disaggregated form.
• There is no system developed to compute the
  maternal mortality rates even at the state level
  on a regular basis.
• Data on childrens height and weight, quality of
  service delivery are not collected on a
  periodical basis.
• There is no gender breakup for most of the
  official data.
• There is need to improve the coverage and
  accuracy of civil registration system which can
  provide best solution for a wide range of data
  availability difficulties relating to demographic
  and health related indicators.
• Data on the unorganised sector needs to be
  streamlined particularly in its employment
  perspective.

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EVALUATION INITIATIVES

• Evaluation mechanism has been streamlined
  outsourcing to external agencies to conduct
  evaluation studies.
• For this purpose one percent of the outlay on
  major programmes has been earmarked for taking up
  evaluation studies through external agencies.
• Constitution of Departmental Evaluation
  Committees, Evaluation Co-ordination Committee to
  review action taken on various recommendations of
  the evaluation reports.
• So far 86 studies have been identified for
  evaluation. 61 evaluation studies so far have
  been completed.

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MAJOR DATA SOURCES

• Decennial census.
• National Sample survey on consumption expenditure
  and employment and unemployment.
• National sample surveys-special surveys.
• Sample registration surveys.
• Reproductive child health surveys.
• National family health surveys.
• All India educational surveys.
• Special surveys taken up by the departments.
• Departmental data.

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Suggested areas for special surveys

• Literacy survey between two decenniums.
• Survey on child labour.
• Survey on self help groups.
• Survey on out of school children.
• Survey on service deliveries.
• Socio-Economic surveys on the status of SC/STs.

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Issues for consideration

• Taluka wise income estimation.
• NSS questionnaire could be (state sample)
  enlarged to include other critical aspects.
• Follow up on recommendations of state human
  development reports.
• Develop expertise on data analysis.
• Streamline Civil Registration System.