Measuring Poverty in Lebanon Using 2011 HBS

The purpose of this technical note is to describe how the welfare aggregate and poverty line were constructed in Lebanon using HBS 2011. It is a part of broader collaboration between CAS and the World Bank to improve data quality and poverty monito...

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Main Authors:	Lebanon Central Administration of Statistics, World Bank
Format:	Report
Language:	English en_US
Published:	World Bank, Washington, DC 2017
Subjects:	poverty line poverty measures welfare consumption food poverty rates
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/868551485966301657/Measuring-poverty-in-Lebanon-using-2011-HBS-technical-report http://hdl.handle.net/10986/26049

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spelling	okr-10986-260492021-04-23T14:04:33Z Measuring Poverty in Lebanon Using 2011 HBS Lebanon Central Administration of Statistics World Bank poverty line poverty measures welfare consumption food poverty rates The purpose of this technical note is to describe how the welfare aggregate and poverty line were constructed in Lebanon using HBS 2011. It is a part of broader collaboration between CAS and the World Bank to improve data quality and poverty monitoring capabilities in the country. Different approaches have been tested to correct non-response and to measure poverty. The note consists of eight sections. Section 2 briefly discusses main methodological issues in poverty measurement. Section 3 explains construction of different components of welfare aggregate. Section 4 documents construction of poverty lines. Triangulation of obtained poverty estimates, sensitivity analysis are conducted in section 5. This section also contains supplementary poverty numbers based on consumption per adult equivalent. Finally, section 6 concludes and discusses areas for further consideration in poverty measurement. 2017-02-13T22:12:27Z 2017-02-13T22:12:27Z 2015-12-08 Report http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/868551485966301657/Measuring-poverty-in-Lebanon-using-2011-HBS-technical-report http://hdl.handle.net/10986/26049 English en_US CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Economic & Sector Work :: Poverty Assessment Economic & Sector Work Middle East and North Africa Lebanon
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description	The purpose of this technical note is to describe how the welfare aggregate and poverty line were constructed in Lebanon using HBS 2011. It is a part of broader collaboration between CAS and the World Bank to improve data quality and poverty monitoring capabilities in the country. Different approaches have been tested to correct non-response and to measure poverty. The note consists of eight sections. Section 2 briefly discusses main methodological issues in poverty measurement. Section 3 explains construction of different components of welfare aggregate. Section 4 documents construction of poverty lines. Triangulation of obtained poverty estimates, sensitivity analysis are conducted in section 5. This section also contains supplementary poverty numbers based on consumption per adult equivalent. Finally, section 6 concludes and discusses areas for further consideration in poverty measurement.
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author	Lebanon Central Administration of Statistics World Bank
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title	Measuring Poverty in Lebanon Using 2011 HBS
title_short	Measuring Poverty in Lebanon Using 2011 HBS
title_full	Measuring Poverty in Lebanon Using 2011 HBS
title_fullStr	Measuring Poverty in Lebanon Using 2011 HBS
title_full_unstemmed	Measuring Poverty in Lebanon Using 2011 HBS
title_sort	measuring poverty in lebanon using 2011 hbs
publisher	World Bank, Washington, DC
publishDate	2017
url	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/868551485966301657/Measuring-poverty-in-Lebanon-using-2011-HBS-technical-report http://hdl.handle.net/10986/26049
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Measuring Poverty in Lebanon Using 2011 HBS

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