Enumeration areas are the operational geographic units for the collection, dissemination, and analysis of census data … considering the size of the population and area within each unit. This is an optimization problem that can best be solved by a … computer. This paper, for the first time, produces an automatic designation of predefined census enumeration areas based on …

estimated based on a consumption survey reporting on poverty and a census providing the spatial disaggregation. This paper … presents a new method which allows for the estimation of up-to-date small area poverty maps when only a dated census and a more … constructed from the census. The proposed estimator has fewer data requirements and weaker assumptions than common small area …