Information on the 60% increase in the depth of poverty for the year - is not true

According to the Department of Social Assistance of the MLSPP, a comparison of the data presented in the information of the LS news agency "The poverty depth in Kazakhstan for the year increased by 60%" is not true, since the authors, in this case, did not take into account the fact that from January 1 In 2018, the structure of the subsistence level was changed, by increasing the share of the non-food portion in it from 40% to 45%. As a result, the subsistence minimum in comparison with 2017 increased to 16%.

To date, the official website of the Committee on Statistics of the Ministry of National Economy of the Republic of Kazakhstan has already published data on the level of poverty, taking into account the change in the structure of the subsistence minimum.

Thus, the share of the population with incomes below the subsistence minimum (poverty level) in the second quarter of 2018 was 4.7%, which is 2.5 percentage points. lower than in the corresponding period of the previous year (7.2% in the second quarter of 2017).

At the same time, the Statistics Committee, with a view to comparability of the data, indicated the indicators, taking into account the change in the structure of the subsistence minimum in the current and previous period, that is, for the second quarter of 2017, they were recalculated according to the new structure of the subsistence minimum introduced on January 1, 2018.

Accordingly, taking into account this, the depth of poverty in the second quarter of 2017 is 0.9%, which is higher by 0.1% than the level of this year, and the poverty severity is 0.2% or at the level of the second quarter of 2018.