measurement is a challenge and household expenditure surveys vary widely across many dimensions, including the level of reporting … and temporally consistent measurement of household consumption and poverty. A field experiment in Tanzania tests eight … design are explored. The study concludes with recommendations for methods of survey based consumption measurement in low …

to obtain evidence on the nature of measurement errors in estimates of household consumption. While there are no … questionnaires shows that errors have a negative correlation with the true value of consumption, creating a non-classical measurement …