Housing

Housing characteristics including household size, ownership status, roofing, walls and assets provide a holistic description of the overall well-being of the household. Description of household characteristics provide a snapshot for the government to improve target housing conditions as per district/division-wise deprivations. In Karachi, 68.1% of population owns houses while 31.9% don’t own their houses (28.8% rented) compared to 77.7% of the population in Sindh province who own their houses.
According to MICS 2018-19, the average number of persons per room in Karachi is 3.0 compared to 4.1 persons per room in Sindh. Similarly, the mean household size of Karachi is 5.5 compared to mean household size of 6.5 in Sindh. About 98.2% of households in Karachi have Pacca roofing compared to 70.7% households in province that have Pacca roofing. Similarly, 99.1% households in Karachi have Pacca walls compared to 70.7% households in the province that have Pacca walls.

UTILITIES

Access to basic facilities like clean drinking water, toilets and sanitation services provide a holistic supply-side service provision coverage in a district/division. In Karachi, 98.9% of households have improved sources of drinking water compared to 90.3% households in Sindh having improved sources of drinking water. In terms of access to sanitation services, 98.5% of households in have access to improved sanitation services compared to 58.8% of households in Sindh with access to improved sanitation services. The prevalence of open defecation in is 1.0% compared to 24.0% in Sindh.
To ascertain whether environment-friendly practices are adopted at household level for cooking, heating and lighting, it is essential to gauge the prevalence of reliance on clean fuels. In Karachi, 97.2 % of the households rely primarily on clean fuels for cooking compared to 50.2% of households relying on clean fuel for cooking in Sindh. Similarly, 87.9% of households in Karachi Division rely primarily on clean fuels for space heating compared to 30.2% of households in Sindh.

Health

Karachi has a total of 165 Government, Departmental, Private and Local Bodies Hospitals with a capacity of 14,350 beds compared to 648 Hospitals in Sindh with a capacity of 30,126 beds. Karachi has a total of 37 Basic Health Units (BHUs) with a capacity of 76 beds compared to 800 BHUs in Sindh with a capacity of 1,615 beds.
Karachi has a total of 6 Rural Health Centers (RHCs) with a capacity of 94 beds compared to 133 RHCs in Sindh with a capacity of 1,703 beds in Sindh. Karachi has a total of 643 Dispensaries with a capacity of 267 beds compared to 2,996 Dispensaries with a capacity of 715 beds in Sindh. Karachi has a total of 23 TB Clinics with no beds compared to 228 TB Clinics with total capacity of 42 beds in Sindh. Karachi has 85 Mother & Child Health Centers (MCHCs) with a total of 26 beds compared to 227 MCHCs with a total of 181 beds. Similarly, Karachi has 7 Maternity Homes out of 42 Maternity Homes in the province. Number of indoor patients served in Karachi are 10,641 out of 744,618 indoor patients in the province. Similarly, number of outdoor patients served in Karachi are 2,296,603 out of 43,718,506 outdoor patients in Sindh.

Education

MPI (Multi-Dimensional Poverty Index)

Multi-Dimensional Poverty Index measures the number of people/households that are ‘multidimensionally’ poor. Essentially, it means the number of people (or HHs) deprived in at least one third of the weighted indicators (H) along with the weighted average number of deprivations poor people experience at the same time (A). The weighted indicators are along three broad dimensions: -Education, -Health, and -Living Standards. In Karachi, the MPI value is 0.1 which is lower than the average MPI Value of 0.25 in Sindh.