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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Main Authors:	Beltram, Theresa, Dang, Hai-Anh H., Sarr, Ibrahima, Verme, Paolo
Format:	Working Paper
Language:	English
Published:	World Bank, Washington, DC 2020
Subjects:	REFUGEES POVERTY MEASUREMENT FORCED DISPLACEMENT TARGETING
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

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spelling	okr-10986-336652022-09-20T00:13:34Z Estimating Poverty among Refugee Populations : A Cross-Survey Imputation Exercise for Chad Beltram, Theresa Dang, Hai-Anh H. Sarr, Ibrahima Verme, Paolo REFUGEES POVERTY MEASUREMENT FORCED DISPLACEMENT TARGETING 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. 2020-04-30T15:45:05Z 2020-04-30T15:45:05Z 2020-04 Working Paper 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 English Policy Research Working Paper;No. 9222 CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Publications & Research Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper Africa Chad
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spellingShingle	REFUGEES POVERTY MEASUREMENT FORCED DISPLACEMENT TARGETING Beltram, Theresa Dang, Hai-Anh H. Sarr, Ibrahima Verme, Paolo Estimating Poverty among Refugee Populations : A Cross-Survey Imputation Exercise for Chad
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description	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.
format	Working Paper
author	Beltram, Theresa Dang, Hai-Anh H. Sarr, Ibrahima Verme, Paolo
author_facet	Beltram, Theresa Dang, Hai-Anh H. Sarr, Ibrahima Verme, Paolo
author_sort	Beltram, Theresa
title	Estimating Poverty among Refugee Populations : A Cross-Survey Imputation Exercise for Chad
title_short	Estimating Poverty among Refugee Populations : A Cross-Survey Imputation Exercise for Chad
title_full	Estimating Poverty among Refugee Populations : A Cross-Survey Imputation Exercise for Chad
title_fullStr	Estimating Poverty among Refugee Populations : A Cross-Survey Imputation Exercise for Chad
title_full_unstemmed	Estimating Poverty among Refugee Populations : A Cross-Survey Imputation Exercise for Chad
title_sort	estimating poverty among refugee populations : a cross-survey imputation exercise for chad
publisher	World Bank, Washington, DC
publishDate	2020
url	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
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Estimating Poverty among Refugee Populations : A Cross-Survey Imputation Exercise for Chad

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