This document compiles a series of reflections on the operationalization of indicators and dimensions integrated into the traditional measures of multidimensional poverty -adapted to the context of each country- against the subjective conceptualization of multidimensional poverty thresholds, structured from a community consensus that, through a rigorous process of statistical validation, dictates descriptive and prescriptive methodological instruments of the specific needs of the population, given the priorities and current demands of the citizenry from the habitat to the micro-territory.
The objective is to present, around a theoretical analysis of the measurement of poverty, an adaptation to the existing methodologies for calculating the MPI, through an exercise that combines the analysis of the choice of equal weights for each of the dimensions that make up the index (IMP) and an approach of subjective weights including dimensions in relation to habitat conditions. Its application is innovative since it has a structure of axiomatic properties that facilitate the achievement of a comparable multidimensional poverty profile and comparable with income; second, it is flexible and easy to read by the non-specialized population; Third, it admits the inclusion of dimensions associated with quality of life that reflect direct actions on the territory and finally, it favors the stimulation of multisectoral coordination (Angulo, Díaz, & Pardo, 2011, p.11).
