By gender

Overview

The deep poverty by gender metrics provide insights into how a policy reform affects deep poverty rates for different genders. These metrics are part of the EconomicImpact class and can be calculated for males, females, and the overall population.

Available Metrics

  1. poverty/deep/male: Calculates the deep poverty rate for males.

  2. poverty/deep/female: Calculates the deep poverty rate for females.

  3. poverty/deep/gender/all: Calculates the overall deep poverty rate.

Metric Structure

Each metric returns a dictionary with the following keys:

  • baseline: The deep poverty rate before the reform.

  • reform: The deep poverty rate after the reform.

  • change: The percentage change in the deep poverty rate due to the reform.

All values are rounded to 2 decimal places for the baseline and reform, and to 1 decimal place for the change.

Example Usage

from policyengine import EconomicImpact

# Initialize the EconomicImpact class with a reform
impact = EconomicImpact(reform={
  "gov.hmrc.income_tax.rates.uk[0].rate": {
    "2024-01-01.2100-12-31": 0.55
  }
}, country="uk")

# Calculate deep poverty rates by gender
male_deep_poverty = impact.calculate("poverty/deep/male")
female_deep_poverty = impact.calculate("poverty/deep/female")
overall_deep_poverty = impact.calculate("poverty/deep/gender/all")

# Print the results
print(f"Male deep poverty: {male_deep_poverty}")
print(f"Female deep poverty: {female_deep_poverty}")
print(f"Overall deep poverty: {overall_deep_poverty}")

output

Male deep poverty: {'baseline': 2.66, 'reform': 2.73, 'change': 2.5}
Female deep poverty: {'baseline': 2.16, 'reform': 2.23, 'change': 2.9}
Overall deep poverty: {'baseline': 2.41, 'reform': 2.47, 'change': 2.7}

Interpretation

In this example:

  • The baseline male deep poverty rate is 2.66%, which increases to 2.73% after the reform, representing a 2.5% increase.

  • The baseline female deep poverty rate is 2.16%, which increases to 2.23% after the reform, representing a 2.9% increase.

  • The overall deep poverty rate increases from 2.41% to 2.47%, a change of 2.7%.