Poverty Stoplight is a multidimensional metric of poverty developed by Fundación Paraguaya. It is designed to put poverty back in the hands of those that experience it by focusing on the individual deprivations families face. This helps break poverty down into smaller pieces which help families develop and prioritize goals that lead them out of poverty.

The app contains a pre-survey, the main survey, and a life map, which takes each family approximately 45 minutes to complete altogether. The pre-survey contains demographic and geographic information meant to index data from the survey. The main body of the survey contains 55 indicators separated into six categories: income and employment, housing and infrastructure, education and culture, health and environment, organization and participation, and interiority and motivation.

The survey questions are answered by the head of the household, who ranks how the family feels about their circumstances. For each indicator, the family decides if they are best represented by red, yellow, or green; red indicating extreme poverty, yellow poverty, and green non-poverty.

For example, for the core indicator of access to water, red would mean no access to safe water, yellow would mean spotty access to safe water or having to buy bottled water, and green would mean regular access to safe water.

While taking the survey, there is also an option to prioritize an issue. At the end of the survey, the head of the household is asked to set goals and answer some questions about why it is priority, what is stopping the family from reaching green, and a timeline for the goal.

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Armenian Survey

A Poverty Stoplight survey has been created for Armenia in Armenian, and you are welcome to try it out by going to https://demo.povertystoplight.org/login.html and using the credentials below. This is a demonstration environment in which you are not required to fill it out completely or accurately, because anyone who logs in can also see your answers. The “Support” tab in the upper corner of the screen also contains more information about the platform, application, and answers to questions you may have.

Username: armeniademo

Password: 123456