as for the previous group of countries the official poverty estimates coincide in the direction of variation although in general they report larger poverty reductions in ecuador panama the plurinational state of bolivia and uruguay the eclac figures aim to reflect the situation in the region in the most comparable manner possible while the national figures seek to best capture the realities of each country this leads to normal methodological differences in the many decisions that are made in the process of building poverty lines the way the goods in staple food and nonfood baskets are selected the prices used to allocate value to these goods or the deflators used to update poverty lines among many other factors as well as in the definition of household income the treatment of nonresponses or the inclusion of imputed rent for the use of owneroccupied dwellings