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Challenges in predicting poverty trends using survey to survey imputation : experiences from Malawi
Mathiassen, Astrid; Wold, Bjørn K. - 2019
Poverty in low-income countries is usually measured with large and infrequent household surveys. A challenge is to find … methods to measure poverty more frequently. The objective of this study is to test a method for predicting poverty, based upon … a statistical model utilizing consumption surveys and light annual surveys. A decade of poverty predictions and regular …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012005515
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Exploring the quality of income data in two African household surveys for the purpose of tax-benefit microsimulation modelling : imputing employment income in Tanzania and Zambia
McLennan, David; Noble, Michael; Wright, Gemma Clare; … - 2021
The quality of data on employment income is explored using Tanzanian and Zambian household survey datasets. The extent of missing and implausible income data is assessed and four different methods are applied to impute missing or implausible values. The four imputation methods are also applied...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012608576
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Personal Assessments of Minimum Income and Expenses: What Do They Tell Us about 'Minimum Living' Thresholds and Equivalence Scales?
Garner, Thesia I.; Short, Kathleen - Bureau of Labor Statistics, Department of Labor - 2005
household thresholds. MIQ thresholds are higher than MSQ thresholds. Both are higher than U.S. official poverty thresholds, and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005063039
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Economic Well-Being Based on Income, Consumer Expenditures and Personal Assessments of Minimal Needs
Garner, Thesia I.; Short, Kathleen - Bureau of Labor Statistics, Department of Labor - 2005
comparisons are based on CE data. Results using official poverty thresholds are shown for comparison. This is among the earliest … personal assessments, and the first time rental equivalence has been used in such an exercise. Comparisons of expenditures for … considered minimum or basic. Results reveal that CE and SIPP MIQ thresholds are higher than MSQ thresholds, and resulting poverty …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005063059
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Asking Consumption Questions in General Purpose Surveys
Browning, Martin; Crossley, Thomas F.; Weber, Guglielmo - Department of Economics, McMaster University - 2002
In many research areas it is desirable to have information on household total expenditure ("consumption"). We draw evidence from several sources on the usefulness of recall consumption questions. We conclude that valid information can be collected by adding specific recall questions to general...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005763295
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Asking Consumption Questions in General Purpose Surveys
Browning, Martin; Crossley, Thomas F.; Weber, Gugliemo - Centre for Applied Microeconometrics (CAM), Økonomisk … - 2002
In many research areas it is desirable to have information on household total expenditure (‘consumption’). We draw evidence from several sources on the usefulness of recall consumption questions. We conclude that valid information can be collected by adding specific recall questions to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005749496
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Nowcasting indicators of poverty risk in the European Union : a microsimulation approach
Navicke, Jekaterina; Rastrigina, Olga; Sutherland, Holly - 2013
The at-risk-of-poverty rate is one of the three indicators used for monitoring progress towards the Europe 2020 poverty … policies. However, due to complicated nature of the European Union Statistics on Income and Living Conditions (EU-SILC) poverty …") the current at-risk-of-poverty rate for the European Union (EU) countries based on EU-SILC microdata from a previous …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009763917
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Matching household surveys with DHS data to create nationally representative time series of poverty : an application to Bolivia
Grosse, Melanie; Klasen, Stephan; Spatz, Julius - 2009 - This version: December 19, 2009
Surveys (DHS) which lack information on incomes. This makes an analysis of trends and determinants of poverty and inequality … paper, we adjust a technique developed for poverty mapping exercises to link urban household income surveys with DHS data to … poverty and inequality in Bolivia. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010258036
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Correcting for misreporting of government benefits
Mittag, Nikolas - 2016
reducing the poverty rate by almost one percentage point more, a 75 percent increase over the survey estimate. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011543927
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The new "minimum vital income" in Spain : distributional and poverty effects in the presence and absence of regional minimum income schemes
Badenes Plá, Nuria; Gambau-Suelves, Borja - 2020
The "Minimum Vital Income" (IMV) constitutes a novelty in the panorama for fighting poverty by guaranteeing minimum … incomes after the COVID-19 crisis. This work simulates the distributional and poverty effects of the IMV introduction across … Spanish regions using EUROMOD. Our results show that the IMV reduces inequality and poverty - general and extreme - for all …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012439058