The Reliability of Small Area Estimation Prediction Methods to Track Poverty

Luc Christiaensen, Peter Lanjouw, Jill Luoto and David Stifel

No wp-2010-099, WIDER Working Paper Series from World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER)

Abstract: 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. Poverty prediction methods that track consumption correlates as opposed to consumption itself have been developed to overcome such data gaps. These methods typically assume that the estimated relation between consumption and its predictors is stable over time—assumptions that usually cannot be tested directly.

Keywords: Consumption; Equality and inequality; Poverty measurement; Methodology (Poverty); Quantitative research methodology (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
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