An Study On The Multidimensional Poverty Fuzzy Measurement Of Rural Household Based On The CHNS Data

Poverty is a complex and comprehensive social and economic problem which is resulted by comprehensive shaping of many factors. As one of the worldwide problems, poverty problem has been caused extensive concern of governments around the world. China is a major power of agriculture and population and rural population occupies a large proportion in the total population, this makes the rural poverty problem in China become the research focus of domestic scholars. In the past we studied poverty only from income or consumption monetary dimension and neglected such as health, education, assets dimension of poverty, so the results cannot measure the degree of rural poverty in China fully and accurately, and thus it also cannot analysis the causes of multidimensional poverty detailedly in the rural areas. As the theory of multidimensional poverty is put forward, more and more domestic and foreign scholars began to study poverty from the multi-dimensional perspective. First of all, this paper compares the related poverty theory and measure method, then, the rural household survey data in nine provinces in China are used as sample from the CHNS database in 2006, 2009 and 2011.It choose multidimensional poverty index system of eight secondary indicators included the fixed number of year of the education, medical insurance by the assets, electronics, electricity, water, cooking fuel and sanitation facilities from income, education, health insurance, asset and standard of living of five dimensions. And it uses the totally fuzzy and relative methods in fuzzy set to build multidimensional poverty index to measure the situation of the multidimensional poverty of rural households in China.The empirical results show that rural poverty in China has reduced overall, in addition to the income poverty, rural family in our country have poverty in the other dimensions, especially the three dimensions of poverty in education, health insurance and health facilities is more serious. The economic development in different rural poor area is unbalanced. Eastern, central, western and northeastern regions poverty has the larger gap. The poverty in the western areas is serious than the east and northeast areas, especially the poverty in Henan province and Guizhou province is most serious. Therefore, China should strengthen the infrastructure construction and the education investment in rural areas, improve the comprehensive quality of poor, further standardize and perfect the rural social security system, build the comprehensive social assistance system. At the same time, we should actively adjust the rural industrial structure, intensify the policy tilt of poverty-stricken areas and help the rural poverty areas to further develop.