Mexico's poverty agency on Friday criticized the national statistics institute for "irregular" changes in the methodology of measuring household income that showed the income of poor Mexicans had jumped by a third.
Earlier on Friday, the national statistics institute, INEGI, published its Module of Socioeconomic Conditions, saying that it had "improved the measurement of household income."
But the National Council for the Evaluation of Social Development Policy (CONEVAL), which measures poverty levels using INEGI's data, said the changes by the statistics institute were not credible.
INEGI did not immediately respond to a request for a comment.
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