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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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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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Estimating poverty in India without expenditure data : a survey-to-survey imputation approach

Newhouse, David Locke; Vyas, Pallavi - 2019

This paper applies an innovative method to estimate poverty in India in the absence of recent expenditure data. The method utilizes expenditure data from 2004-05, 2009-10, and 2011-12 to impute household expenditure into a survey of durable goods expenditure conducted in 2014-15. At the USD 1.90...

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Sae : a stata package for unit level small area estimation

Nguyen, Minh Cong; Corral, Paul; Azevedo, João Pedro; … - 2018

This paper presents a new family of Stata functions devoted to small area estimation. Small area methods attempt to solve low representativeness of surveys within areas, or the lack of data for specific areas/sub-populations. This is accomplished by incorporating information from outside...

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Estimating poverty for refugee populations : can cross-survey imputation methods substitute for data scarcity?

Dang, Hai-Anh H.; Verme, Paolo - 2019

The increasing growth of forced displacement worldwide has led to the stronger interest of various stakeholders in measuring poverty among refugee populations. However, refugee data remain scarce, particularly in relation to the measurement of income, consumption, or expenditure. This paper...

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