Endnotes
1 The poverty line is set for each state, and represents the level of consumer expenditure per capita required to ensure a calorie intake of 2100 per day in urban areas and 2400 per day in rural areas. In 1995–96, it was estimated that 20.5% of Gujarat’s rural population, and 30.7% of the urban population, were BPL.
2 For the purpose of this study, we considered recent migrants as those who had moved from their place of origin/birth (or usual residence) within the previous year (Census 2001). For the purpose of the in-depth interviews, non-migrants were those who had lived at their current place of residence since birth.
3 The latest poverty statistics for India suggest that in 1999–2000, 28.6% of the total population were living below the ‘national poverty line’ (World Bank 2010). We chose to compare coping strategies among the poorest 30% of respondents (vs the less poor 70%) as they might roughly be thought of as representing those who live below the poverty line (vs those who live above the poverty line). This is a rather arbitrary and imperfect cut-off, given that Gujarat does tend to perform slightly better than all-India on measures of poverty (and so is likely to have a poverty line lower than 30%) and, more importantly, given that respondents to the exit survey are not representative of the general population.
Endnotes1 The poverty line is set for each state, and represents the level of consumer expenditure per capita required to ensure a calorie intake of 2100 per day in urban areas and 2400 per day in rural areas. In 1995–96, it was estimated that 20.5% of Gujarat’s rural population, and 30.7% of the urban population, were BPL.2 For the purpose of this study, we considered recent migrants as those who had moved from their place of origin/birth (or usual residence) within the previous year (Census 2001). For the purpose of the in-depth interviews, non-migrants were those who had lived at their current place of residence since birth.3 The latest poverty statistics for India suggest that in 1999–2000, 28.6% of the total population were living below the ‘national poverty line’ (World Bank 2010). We chose to compare coping strategies among the poorest 30% of respondents (vs the less poor 70%) as they might roughly be thought of as representing those who live below the poverty line (vs those who live above the poverty line). This is a rather arbitrary and imperfect cut-off, given that Gujarat does tend to perform slightly better than all-India on measures of poverty (and so is likely to have a poverty line lower than 30%) and, more importantly, given that respondents to the exit survey are not representative of the general population.
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