Household consumption data are often unavailable, not fully collected, or incomparable over time in poorer countries … effective use requires standardized protocols. We refine existing poverty imputation models using 14 multi-topic household … surveys conducted over the past decade in Ethiopia, Malawi, Nigeria, Tanzania, and Vietnam. We find that adding household …

Survey data on household consumption are often unavailable or incomparable over time in many low- and middle …, household assets and housing, yield accurate predictions. Imputation accuracy is robust to varying survey questionnaire length …

Accurate poverty measurement relies on household consumption data, but such data are often inadequate, outdated or …-poverty rates, as well as mean consumption levels and the entire consumption distribution. Analyzing 22 multi-topic household … results. Adding either household utility expenditures or food expenditures to basic imputation models with household …