This article briefly reviews and analyses the indicators and survey questions commonly used to measure individuals’ voice and agency in the development field and proposes a small set of questions to include in a multidimensional poverty survey questionnaire. This review leaves out scales and measures proposed in the psychological literature that have never been implemented in large scale household surveys.

Social connectedness includes the absence of not only loneliness and isolation but also factors including shame and stigma. Today, there is growing recognition that this concept is an important basis for human flourishing, and that it is deeply interlinked with other aspects of multidimensional poverty, such as living standards and health.

Education is a key dimension in poverty measurement. Not only it is valuable on itself, but it also enables the achievement of other valuable goals.

Health is one of the most critical aspects of multidimensional poverty, yet at the same time it is one of the most challenging dimensions  in the measurement of multidimensional poverty.

The Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI) have embarked on a scoping review to gauge the availability of data crucial for constructing a comprehensive Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) on a global scale. Their findings underscored significant gaps in the necessary data, hindering the creation of a truly global measure of poverty that encompasses countries across all developmental stages.