The Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative’s Multidimensional Poverty Index has become a widely adopted measure of wellbeing. However, it is criticised for applying equal weights to its three dimensions: health; education; and living standards. There is no a priori reason to expect that all three dimensions equally contribute to wellbeing. This article reports on a Discrete Choice Experiment that involved a sample of 670 Sri Lankans who selected their preferences for the weights. The findings suggest that health is the most important dimension and should receive a weight of 0.38. In comparison, education has a weight of 0.33 and living standards a weight of 0.29. Cluster analysis reveals that location, age, education level and number of dependents are important in explaining differences in weight preferences. Finally, the paper demonstrates that poverty rankings of districts and provinces differ across the different approaches to weighting the index dimensions.

牛津贫困与人类发展计划的多维贫困指数已成为人们广泛采用的福祉衡量标准。但是，人们批评它在三个维度上都采用了相同的权重：健康；教育; 和生活水平。没有先验的理由可以期望所有三个方面都对幸福做出同样的贡献。本文报道了一个离散选择实验，该实验涉及670个斯里兰卡人的样本，他们选择了权重。研究结果表明，健康是最重要的方面，应承受0.38的重量。相比之下，教育的权重为0.33，生活水平的权重为0.29。聚类分析表明，地点，年龄，受教育程度和受抚养人数量对于解释体重偏好的差异很重要。最后，