Small area estimation-based prediction methods to track poverty : validation and applications (English)

Tracking poverty is predicated on the availability of comparable consumption data and reliable price deflators. However, regular series of strictly comparable data are only rarely available. Price deflators are also often missing or disputed. In response, poverty prediction methods that track consumption correlates as opposed to consumption itself have been developed. These methods typically assume that the estimated relation between consumption and...

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Christiaensen,Luc;

Lanjouw,Peter F.;

Luoto,Jill Emily;

Stifel,David C.;
Document Date
2011/06/01
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Policy Research Working Paper
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WPS5683
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1
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1
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World,
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Other,
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2011/06/01
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Disclosed
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Small area estimation-based prediction methods to track poverty : validation and applications
Keywords
Demographic and Health Survey

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Christiaensen,Luc; Lanjouw,Peter F.; Luoto,Jill Emily; Stifel,David C..

Small area estimation-based prediction methods to track poverty : validation and applications (English). Paper is funded by the Knowledge for Change Program (KCP)|Policy Research working paper ; no. WPS 5683 Washington, DC: World Bank. http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/211731468326995187

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