Monitoring Poverty in Uttar Pradesh: A Report on the Third Poverty and Social Monitoring Survey (PSMS-III) 2007-08

Abstract

The Uttar Pradesh Poverty and Social Monitoring System (UP PSMS) was established by the Government of Uttar Pradesh ((ioUP) in 1999, under the direction of the Directorate of Economics and Statistics (DES), Plannnig Department. A broad set f economic and social monitoring indicators (measures of economic growth and poverty, as well as human development outcomes, access to basic services and antipoverty programs, and measures of Consumer awareness and satisfaction was agreed upon at the outset of the project, and a special purpose module (Poverty Module) was added to the state sample of the 55th Round National Sample Survey (NSS) to measure these indicators. The first survey henceforth PSMS-i) was completed between February and June 2000, Drawing upon the salient findings of PSMS-I.