Problems of measuring changes in poverty over time: the case of Uganda 1989-1992

Simon Appleton

No 1995-01, CSAE Working Paper Series from Centre for the Study of African Economies, University of Oxford

Abstract: Official reports on household surveys of Uganda in 1989 and 1992 record an increase in consumption much smaller than the rise in the CPI. Use of alternative price deflation and correction for sampling differences still implies a dramatic collapse in reported real consumption. The decline is claimed to be spurious, given production and other data. It is argued that there was a large increase in recall error, due to the switch from a dedicated list format budget survey to a large integrated survey with open format expenditure questions. Food purchase estimates using shorter recall periods are consistent with this interpretation.

Date: 1995
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (1)

Published in Institute of Development Studies Bulletin, 27(1), January 1996, pp43-55

Downloads: (external link)
https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:9cce63f0-1328-40ba-9ff5-87abc095d9ca (application/pdf)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:csa:wpaper:1995-01

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in CSAE Working Paper Series from Centre for the Study of African Economies, University of Oxford Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Julia Coffey ().