Table 2 Effect of Income on MPI score.

From: Investigation of multidimensional poverty in Pakistan at the national, regional, and provincial level

MPI score

Coef.

St. Err.

t value

p value

95% Confidence Interval

Sig

Annual Income (Base category: Income lower than mean income)

Income higher than mean income

−0.061

0.002

−34.72

0.000

−0.065

−0.058

***

Control variables

 Age

−0.001

0

−44.94

0.000

−0.001

−0.001

***

 Gender (Base category: female)

−0.006

0.001

−7.89

0.000

−0.008

−0.005

***

Region (Base category: rural)

 Urban

−0.111

0.001

−135.00

0.000

−0.113

−0.11

***

Province (Base category: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa)

0

.

.

.

.

.

 

 Punjab

−0.043

0.002

−22.82

0.000

−0.047

−0.04

***

 Sindh

0.02

0.002

8.25

0.000

0.015

0.024

***

 Balochistan

0.109

0.004

28.44

0.000

0.101

0.116

***

Annual income*Province (Base categories: Income lower than mean income and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa)

 Income higher than mean income*Punjab

0.018

0.002

8.08

0.000

0.014

0.022

***

 Income higher than mean income*Sindh

0.002

0.003

0.78

0.433

−0.003

0.007

 

 Income higher than mean income*Balochistan

−0.009

0.004

−2.11

0.035

−0.017

−0.001

**

 Constant

0.393

0.002

248.41

0.000

0.39

0.396

***

R-squared

0.225

Number of obs

130538

F-test

3791.639

Prob > F

0.000

Akaike crit. (AIC)

−146014.200

Bayesian crit. (BIC)

−145906.627

Variance Inflation Factor

2.41

 
  1. Mean annual income is PKR 326,764 annual income. N = 137,872.
  2. ***p < 0.01, **p < 0.05, *p < 0.1.