Lack of services or schools near by are other reasons for children of school-age not to attend school. This is an important factor contributing to the continuation of poverty and hardship across generations in families. Often the lack of services and child care in a community, places a demand and additional burden on time and labour of women and girls, which results in a higher number of school drop cuts for girls than boys. Similarly you can measure the percentage of school drop out among boys, and compare that with the percentage found for girls. This indicator helps determine how serious the problem of hunger is within the community.
Hunger indicates the households' absolute poverty.
Each work team decides what is the number of adequate meals per day for a household in their community. You measure the problem of hunger within the community by dividing the number of households without adequate meals by the number of all households, and multiplying the result by 100. Let, say that your team agrees that households who have no, or only one, cooked meal during the day do not eat adequately and hunger is a problem for them. In that case you tally the number of responses to code 4 and 5 in Q.7 and compare it with total number of households who responded to that question.