monetary measures may be accurate on average but not at the household level yet the mpi requires each indicator to accurately depict deprivation status at the household level if a relative poverty line is used for income as in alkire and apablaza then the poverty focus and deprivation axioms do not hold having a mixture of relative and absolute cutoffs also is conceptually challenging for example in the case of mexico it appears that economic and noneconomic aspects of poverty are equally weighted but in fact the identification procedure is designed to exclude all persons who are not income poor from having the possibility of being identified as poor