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

Gianni Betti, Vasco Molini () and Dan Pavelesku

No 9648, Policy Research Working Paper Series from The World Bank

Abstract: 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. The proposed method is based on the availability of a previously conducted poverty mapping, that is, spatial descriptions of the distribution of poverty, which are finely disaggregated in small geographic units, such as cities, municipalities, districts, or other administrative partitions of a country that are linked to primary selection units. Such information is then used to select primary selection units with systematic sampling by introducing further implicit stratification in the survey design, to maximize the improvement of the design effect. The proposed methodology has been implemented for the new 2021 Household Budget Survey in Tunisia, conducted under a cooperation project funded by the World Bank. The underlying poverty mapping is based on the 2015 Household Budget Survey and the 2014 Population and Housing Census.

Keywords: Inequality; Public Sector Administrative&Civil Service Reform; Economics and Finance of PublicInstitution Development; Democratic Government; State Owned Enterprise Reform; Public Sector Administrative and Civil Service Reform; De Facto Governments; Labor&Employment Law; Small Area Estimation Poverty Mapping; Poverty Lines; Poverty Assessment; Poverty Monitoring&Analysis; Poverty Diagnostics; Poverty Impact Evaluation; Crime and Society (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021-05-03
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