up to december the same factor was applied to both lines since however the indigence line has been adjusted to reflect changes in the food cpi whereas the part of the poverty line that corresponds to nonfood spending is adjusted by the relevant cpi since therefore the differential between the indigence and poverty lines has ceased to be constant in line with usual eclac practice the data have been corrected to account for nonresponse to some incomerelated questions by wage earners the selfemployed and retirees and to mitigate probable underreporting biases