The Measurement of the Least Living by Using LES: In Case of Ilam Province during two Programs

From the past and so far the phenomena of poverty was with human beings and it is one of the important problems of the communities.There is different and several definitions of the concept of poverty that in terms of method has a very different categories of poverty and in this research explains and surveys how to measure it with related indexes. Based on this concept Relative Poverty Line" is the inability of families to meet one determine level of standards of living that is realized necessary and desirable in the current society".To survey the level of standard of living we have used components of eight main groups with its price index of them that is published by Iran Statistic Center including: Food, clothes, housing, furniture, health¬¬ and treatment, transportation, recreation and education and none-reguler group.For determining relative poverty line, we used LES that based on it the least living was 6/460/500 Rials in 1374 (1995) that is reached 27/287/271 Rials in 1383 (2004) with the regard to the least living, they have accounted index of numeration ratio, income gap ratio, income inequity between the poor and KaKwani also from 1384 to 1383. It has reached in 1374: 52%, 39%, 33%, 17%, relatively that in 1383 was 17%, 33%, 16%, 3%. The situation and the trends of these indexes show the situation of the poverty and the poor during that period.Also, we find that by comparing the years of the second five-year (1374-78) with the program of the third five-year (1379-83) that the situation of poverty during the program of the third five-year related to the program of the second five-year, it is better that this case resulted from the indexes even though the least living has increased in the third five-year program in comparison with the second five-year program.