thus the atkinson commission report monitoring global poverty world bank rightly observes that the mpi is less data intensive than monetary measures the creation of the overlapping poverty measure or of the more general measures of multidimensionality developed by alkire and foster a in one sense raises the stakes with regard to data requirements in order to ascertain the extent of overlap of deprivation across dimensions it is necessary to have a data source at the level of the individual or household covering all relevant dimensions at the same time the number of questions required per dimension may be considerably less in the case of nonmonetary indicators than is the case with the measurement of consumption for the monetary policy indicator the information required to calculate consumption is typically much more extensive