Is predicted data a viable alternative to real data ? (English)

It is costly to collect the household- and individual-level data that underlies official estimates of poverty and health. For this reason, developing countries often do not have the budget to update their estimates of poverty and health regularly, even though these estimates are most needed there. One way to reduce the financial burden is to substitute some of the real data with predicted data. An approach referred to as double sampling collects the...

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Fujii,Tomoki;

Van Der Weide,Roy;
Document Date
2016/09/28
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Policy Research Working Paper
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WPS7841
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1
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1
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World,
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Other,
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2016/09/28
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Disclosed
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Is predicted data a viable alternative to real data ?
Keywords
living standard measurement

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Fujii,Tomoki; Van Der Weide,Roy.

Is predicted data a viable alternative to real data ? (English). Policy Research working paper|no. WPS 7841 Washington, D.C. : World Bank Group. http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/695831475069105653

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