Equality Insights is an individual-level gender-sensitive measure of multidimensional poverty, underpinned by twelve years of research and development, field testing and expert review and audit. It was developed to provide an alternative to household-level measurement, to strengthen and complement existing approaches to poverty measurement.

The Individual Deprivation Measure (IDM) study in the Solomon Islands was implemented between January and April 2020 in order to gain insights into the economic, social, political, and environmental dimensions of the lives of the people of Central and Guadalcanal Provinces.

This document provides technical guidance to those wishing to understand the detail of the composite index construction methodology and scoring scheme used for the Solomon Islands 2020 study.