This Guide has been prepared by the UNECE Task Force on Poverty Measurement, which consisted of the following members: Giorgi Kalakashvili (National Statistics Office of Georgia), Bernd Becker (Federal Statistical Office, Germany), Nicoletta Pannuzi (Istat, Italy), Anna Szukiełoć‐Bieńkuńska (Central Statistical Office of Poland), Natalia Ignatova and Tatiana Velikanova (Rosstat, Russian Federation), Zeynep Gürsoy and Yakut Yüksel (Turkish Statistical Institute), Richard Tonkin (United Kingdom Office for National Statistics, ONS), John Shale and Jeetendra Seera (United Kingdom Department for Work and Pensions), Valentina Bryseva (CIS‐STAT), Didier Dupré, Jean‐Louis Mercy, Emilio Di Meglio and Jakub Hrkal (Eurostat), Marco Mira d’Ercole and Carlotta Balestra (OECD), Ben Slay, Elena Danilova‐Cross and Mihail Peleah (UNDP Istanbul Regional Hub), Joanne Bosworth (UNICEF), João Pedro Lopez Azevedo and Minh Cong Nguyen (World Bank), Sabina Alkire, Adriana
Conconi and Bilal Malaeb (Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative, (OPHI)), Andres Vikat and Vania Etropolska (UNECE). The Task Force acknowledges input from Matthias Till (Statistics Austria). The chapters of the Guide have been discussed and agreed by the entire Task Force. Some organizations took primary responsibility for drafting certain chapters, as follows: chapters 1 and 2 by UNDP and UNECE, chapter 3 by the United Kingdom (ONS), and chapters 4 and 5 by OPHI. Ben Slay (UNDP) edited the entire Guide.