{
  "id": 2504853,
  "title": "How BPS Ranks Household Deciles: Method Explained",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/22/how-bps-ranks-household-deciles-method-explained",
  "topic": "finance",
  "section": "Finance & Markets",
  "published": "2026-08-22T05:01:55.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Tempo.co English",
    "slug": "tempo-co-english",
    "url": "https://en.tempo.co/read/2118068/how-bps-ranks-household-deciles-method-explained"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "Jakarta, TEMPO.CO - The Central Bureau of Statistics (BPS) has clarified the process behind assigning household deciles. According to BPS Head Amalia Adininggar Widyasanti, a decile reflects a family's relative position in welfare rankings compared to other households, based on various socioeconomic aspects, not just income or wealth. In a press release on Friday, August 21, 2026, Amalia explained that a decile does not represent an absolute indicator of poverty or a household's financial status.\n\nDeciles are divided into ten categories, with Decile 1 representing the lowest relative welfare and Decile 10 representing the highest. These categories encompass around ten percent of households each. Amalia emphasized that decile placement is determined by a combination of factors, including housing conditions, water sources, cooking fuel, asset ownership, electricity usage, household composition, education, employment, health, and disability status. This information is evaluated using the Proxy Means Test (PMT) statistical method to estimate household welfare.\n\nShe clarified that the decile ranking can change as a household's socioeconomic circumstances evolve. Therefore, maintaining the accuracy of the National Socioeconomic Single Data (DTSEN) requires continuous data updates from various sources, including administrative data, census findings, surveys, ministries, agencies, local governments, field verification, and public submissions. BPS Version 3 of the 2026 DTSEN database contains 290.13 million individual records and 95.98 million household records as of July 10, 2026. Citizens can submit updates through designated channels if their recorded information does not match their actual conditions. However, submitting an update does not automatically change a family's decile status; the new information is incorporated into the updating and recounting process.",
  "summary": "Statistics Indonesia (BPS) clarified its decile determination method, explaining that deciles reflect welfare rankings rather than income figures.",
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}