Estimating Poverty among Refugee Populations : A Cross-Survey Imputation Exercise for Chad
Household consumption surveys do not typically cover refugee populations, and poverty estimates for refugees are rare. This paper tests the performance of cross-survey imputation methods to estimate poverty for a sample of refugees in Chad, by comb...
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| Format: | Working Paper |
| Language: | English |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2020
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/511711588016782589/Estimating-Poverty-among-Refugee-Populations-A-Cross-Survey-Imputation-Exercise-for-Chad http://hdl.handle.net/10986/33665 |
| Summary: | Household consumption surveys do not
typically cover refugee populations, and poverty estimates
for refugees are rare. This paper tests the performance of
cross-survey imputation methods to estimate poverty for a
sample of refugees in Chad, by combining United Nations High
Commissioner for Refugees survey and administrative data.
The proposed method offers poverty estimates based on
administrative data that fall within a 95 percent margin of
poverty estimates based on survey consumption data. This
result is robust to different poverty lines, sets of
regressors, and modeling assumptions of the error term. The
method outperforms common targeting methods, such as proxy
means tests and the targeting method currently used by
humanitarian organizations in Chad. |
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