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Measuring the statistical capacity of nations

Cameron, Grant J.; Dang, Hai-Anh H.; Mustafa, Dinc; … - 2019

The international development community has used the World Bank's Statistical Capacity Index since its inception in 2004. The Sustainable Development Goals create new challenges for national statistical systems to produce high-quality and internationally comparable data. This paper reviews...

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Aspekte regionaler Armutsmessung in Deutschland

Becker, Bernd; Mertel, Bettina - In: Wirtschaft und Statistik : WISTA (2010) 4, pp. 383-395

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Messung der wahrgenommenen Inflation in Deutschland : die Ermittlung der Kaufhäufigkeiten durch das Statistische Bundesamt

Bechthold, Sabine; Elbel, Günther; Hannappel, Heinz-Peter - In: Wirtschaft und Statistik : WISTA (2005) 9, pp. 989-998

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Measuring Labor Earnings Inequality Using Public-Use March Current Population Survey Data : The Value of Including Variances and Cell Means When Imputing Topcoded Values

Burkhauser, Richard V. - 2010

Using the Census Bureau's internal March Current Population Surveys (CPS) file, we construct and make available variances and cell means for all topcoded income values in the public-use version of these data. We then provide a procedure that allows researchers with access only to the public-use...

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Consistent Cell Means for Topcoded Incomes in the Public Use March CPS (1976-2007)

Larrimore, Jeff - 2010

Using the internal March CPS, we create and in this paper distribute to the larger research community a cell mean series that provides the mean of all income values above the topcode for any income source of any individual in the public use March CPS that has been topcoded since 1976. We also...

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Improving the Accuracy of Economic Measurement with Multiple Data Sources : The Case of Payroll Employment Data

Cajner, Tomaz - 2019

-time measurement of the labor market. The sources are the Current Employment Statistics (CES) from BLS and microdata from the payroll …

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Developing Gender-Disaggregated Poverty Small Area Estimates : Technical Report

World Bank Group - 2019

Small area estimates of poverty and inequality statistics, through survey-to-census imputation that lets consumption be … predictions available for all households, inequality and poverty statistics can be estimated for small geographic areas (Elbers et … al, 2003).2 In the results below, the poverty statistics that are calculated by using the predicted consumption data for …

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Stiglitz, Sen und "GDP and Beyond" : Herausforderungen für die amtliche Statistik aus einer industriellen Perspektive

Haß, Hans-Joachim - In: Wirtschaft und Statistik : WISTA (2010) 7, pp. 694-699

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Pull your small area estimates up by the bootstraps

Corral, Paul; Molina, Isabel; Nguyen, Minh - 2020

After almost two decades of poverty maps produced by the World Bank and multiple advances in the literature, this paper presents a methodological update to the World Bank's toolkit for small area estimation. The paper reviews the computational procedures of the current methods used by the World...

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Retooling Poverty Targeting Using Out-of-Sample Validation and Machine Learning

McBride, Linden - 2016

Proxy means test (PMT) poverty targeting tools have become common tools for beneficiary targeting and poverty assessment where full means tests are costly. Currently popular estimation procedures for generating these tools prioritize minimization of in-sample prediction errors; however, the...

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