methodology is another significant issue data on income poverty are based on a longestablished methodology whose results are solidly enshrined in monetary income thresholds that unequivocally delineate the poor population and within it the indigent population by comparison the multidimensional deprivationbased approach to poverty measurement still lacks the methodological consensus enjoyed by incomebased measurements and does not support such a clearcut interpretation of the results nevertheless it complements the income approach and captures both population groups that both parameters signal as poor and groups whose income places above the poverty line but that suffer deprivation in relation to basic needs the most recent available data indicated that the poorest income quintile ie the of households with the lowest income on average accounted for of of total income with the figure varying between in the dominican republic honduras and paraguay and in uruguay meanwhile the wealthiest income quintile accounted for an average of of total income ranging from in uruguay to in brazil see table