Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/52910 
Year of Publication: 
2002
Series/Report no.: 
WIDER Discussion Paper No. 2002/39
Publisher: 
The United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER), Helsinki
Abstract: 
This paper implements a methodology for estimating poverty in Ecuador, Madagascar and South Africa, at levels of disaggregation that to date have not generally been available. The methodology is based on a statistical procedure to combine household survey data with population census data, imputing into the latter a measure of per capita consumption from the former. The countries are very unlike each other—with different geographies, stages of development, quality and types of data, and so on. Yet the paper demonstrates that in all three countries the poverty estimates produced from census data are both plausible (in that they match well stratum-level estimates calculated directly from the household surveys) and satisfactorily precise (at a level of disaggregation far below that allowed by household surveys).
Subjects: 
poverty measurement
poverty profiles
spatial distribution
forecasting models
statistical inference
JEL: 
I32
O18
C53
ISBN: 
9291902012
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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