Household expenditure survey data cannot yield precise estimates of poverty or inequality for small areas for which no or few observations are available. Census data are more plentiful, but typically exclude income and expenditure data. Recent years have seen a widespread use of small-area...

Applied economists are often interested in studying changes over time of important economic indicators, such as inequality or poverty, but such comparisons can be made impossible by changes in data collection methodology. We describe an easily implemented procedure to recover comparability that...