Editorial: How can Official Statistics find a way out of the fog? 5 method to a province of Sri Lanka on three main di-354 mensions; material deprivation, deprivation of social 355 dimensions and deprivation of human capital. The find-356 ings reveal that the core factors of poverty are depri-357 vation in social networks, nutrition and housing. The 358 authors suggest that the application of this method un-359 doubtedly encourages the analysis of further research 360 on multidimensional poverty.