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Table 14: Capability Poverty and Income Poverty in Egypt 1995(%)
Under-
Weight
Unattended
Births
Female with
no education
People who
are capability
poor
People who
are income
poor
EGYPT 12.5 43.7 35.4 33.9 22.9
All Urban 9.9 32.1 20.8 20.9 22.5
All Rural 14.1 67.2 47.8 43.0 23.3
Urban Gov. 9.1 30.8 20.4 20.1 16.0
Lower Egypt 9.6 48.6 33.0 30.4 17.1
-Urban 8.8 24.9 18.8 17.5 21.7
-Rural 9.9 56.1 38.9 35.0 15.4
Upper Egypt 16.1 67.8 48.3 44.1 34.1
-Urban 11.0 40.4 24.1 25.2 35.0
-Rural 17.8 77.1 59.1 51.3 33.7
Source: EHDR (1996).
Table15-a: Poverty measures by educational status of household for urban areas in 2000
Using Upper Poverty Line Using Lower Poverty Line
P0 P1 P2 P0 P1 P2
% no. of
H.Hold
Illiterate 63.50 24.91 12.83 41.59 14.50 6.76 28.436
Read and Write 46.70 14.06 5.85 23.83 6.13 2.29 24.434
Below University 40.90 11.15 4.31 18.25 4.42 1.49 9.982
University 19.90 4.91 1.69 8.16 1.60 0.44 15.464
Higher than University 5.17 0.79 0.16 0.88 0.07 0.01 0.936
Total 45.16 14.71 6.66 24.52 7.22 3.01 100
Source: El-Laithy, Heba (2001)
Table 15-b: Poverty measures by educational status of household for rural areas
Using Upper Poverty Line Using Lower Poverty Line
P0 P1 P2 P0 P1 P2
% no. of
H.Hold
Illiterate 58.39 22.01 10.64 38.36 13.48 6.28 54.735
Read
Write
and 35.64 10.08 3.56 17.82 4.36 1.43 23.5000
Below
University
40.19 11.30 3.82 21.64 4.79 1.36 18.062
University 22.08 5.82 1.86 10.10 2.21 0.61 3.642
Higher than 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.061
University
Total 48.40 16.67 7.42 29.46 9.35 4.04 100
Source: El-Laithy, Heba (2001)