Quantifying the Qualitative: Eliciting Expert Input to Develop the Multidimensional Poverty Assessment Tool
介绍了在中国和印度开发的多维贫困评估工具（MPAT），重点阐述了如何通过专家意见来设计调查问卷、处理回答和确定权重，并讨论了不将MPAT汇总为指数的决策及未来研究方向。
This article discusses the participatory creation of the Multidimensional Poverty Assessment Tool (MPAT), a survey-based thematic indicator developed in China and India. The core of the article focuses on the use of expert elicitation to inform the construction of MPAT’s household and village surveys, the cardinalisation of survey responses, and the weighting scheme design. This is followed by a discussion of the potential pitfalls of expertise in development, the decision not to aggregate MPAT into an index, creating locally relevant poverty lines, and ideas for future research. The article closes with a summary of lessons learned.