How can USAID PATs be used for more than reporting to USAID?
All USAID-certified poverty assessment tools and accompanying training materials are freely available to any organization or individual to help measure extreme poverty at the household level. PATs are already being used in other research projects that focus on the depth of outreach to the very poor. In addition to measuring the prevalence of extreme poverty, the data collected using a PAT can be exported to other formats and analyzed to look for trends among the target population. Additional questions can also be added to the end of the PAT survey to augment how much is learned about the clients of a program.
