Using Poverty Maps to Improve the Design of Household Surveys : The Evidence from Tunisia (English)

This paper proposes a new method for improving the design effect of household surveys based on a two-stage design in which the first stage clusters, or primary selection units, are stratified along administrative boundaries. Improvement of the design effect can result in more precise survey estimates (smaller standard errors and confidence intervals) or reduction of the necessary sample size, that is, a reduction in the budget needed for a survey...

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Betti,Gianni;

Molini,Vasco;

Pavelesku,Dan;
Document Date
2021/05/03
Document Type
Policy Research Working Paper
Report Number
WPS9648
Volume No
1
Total Volume(s)
1
Country
Tunisia,
Region
Middle East and North Africa,
Disclosure Date
2021/05/03
Disclosure Status
Disclosed
Doc Name
Using Poverty Maps to Improve the Design of Household Surveys : The Evidence from Tunisia
Keywords
per capita consumption

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Betti,Gianni; Molini,Vasco; Pavelesku,Dan.

Using Poverty Maps to Improve the Design of Household Surveys : The Evidence from Tunisia (English). Policy Research working paper|no. WPS 9648 Washington, D.C. : World Bank Group. http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/530521620065713055

Using Poverty Maps to Improve the Design of Household Surveys : The Evidence from Tunisia (English)

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