Using Poverty Maps to Improve the Design of Household Surveys : The Evidence from Tunisia

This paper proposes a new method for improving the design effect of household surveys based on a two-stage design in which the first stage clusters, or primary selection units, are stratified along administrative boundaries. Improvement of the desi...

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Main Authors: Betti, Gianni, Molini, Vasco, Pavelesku, Dan
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Language:English
Published: World Bank, Washington, DC 2021
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Online Access:http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/530521620065713055/Using-Poverty-Maps-to-Improve-the-Design-of-Household-Surveys-The-Evidence-from-Tunisia
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spelling okr-10986-355462022-09-20T00:09:29Z Using Poverty Maps to Improve the Design of Household Surveys : The Evidence from Tunisia Betti, Gianni Molini, Vasco Pavelesku, Dan POVERTY MAPPING HOUSEHOLD SURVEY SURVEY DESIGN INEQUALITY POVERTY MEASUREMENT IMPLICIT STRATIFICATION INCOME DISTRIBUTION This paper proposes a new method for improving the design effect of household surveys based on a two-stage design in which the first stage clusters, or primary selection units, are stratified along administrative boundaries. Improvement of the design effect can result in more precise survey estimates (smaller standard errors and confidence intervals) or reduction of the necessary sample size, that is, a reduction in the budget needed for a survey. The proposed method is based on the availability of a previously conducted poverty mapping, that is, spatial descriptions of the distribution of poverty, which are finely disaggregated in small geographic units, such as cities, municipalities, districts, or other administrative partitions of a country that are linked to primary selection units. Such information is then used to select primary selection units with systematic sampling by introducing further implicit stratification in the survey design, to maximize the improvement of the design effect. The proposed methodology has been implemented for the new 2021 Household Budget Survey in Tunisia, conducted under a cooperation project funded by the World Bank. The underlying poverty mapping is based on the 2015 Household Budget Survey and the 2014 Population and Housing Census. 2021-05-06T14:27:21Z 2021-05-06T14:27:21Z 2021-05 Working Paper http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/530521620065713055/Using-Poverty-Maps-to-Improve-the-Design-of-Household-Surveys-The-Evidence-from-Tunisia http://hdl.handle.net/10986/35546 English Policy Research Working Paper;No. 9648 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 Middle East and North Africa Tunisia
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topic POVERTY MAPPING
HOUSEHOLD SURVEY
SURVEY DESIGN
INEQUALITY
POVERTY MEASUREMENT
IMPLICIT STRATIFICATION
INCOME DISTRIBUTION
spellingShingle POVERTY MAPPING
HOUSEHOLD SURVEY
SURVEY DESIGN
INEQUALITY
POVERTY MEASUREMENT
IMPLICIT STRATIFICATION
INCOME DISTRIBUTION
Betti, Gianni
Molini, Vasco
Pavelesku, Dan
Using Poverty Maps to Improve the Design of Household Surveys : The Evidence from Tunisia
geographic_facet Middle East and North Africa
Tunisia
relation Policy Research Working Paper;No. 9648
description This paper proposes a new method for improving the design effect of household surveys based on a two-stage design in which the first stage clusters, or primary selection units, are stratified along administrative boundaries. Improvement of the design effect can result in more precise survey estimates (smaller standard errors and confidence intervals) or reduction of the necessary sample size, that is, a reduction in the budget needed for a survey. The proposed method is based on the availability of a previously conducted poverty mapping, that is, spatial descriptions of the distribution of poverty, which are finely disaggregated in small geographic units, such as cities, municipalities, districts, or other administrative partitions of a country that are linked to primary selection units. Such information is then used to select primary selection units with systematic sampling by introducing further implicit stratification in the survey design, to maximize the improvement of the design effect. The proposed methodology has been implemented for the new 2021 Household Budget Survey in Tunisia, conducted under a cooperation project funded by the World Bank. The underlying poverty mapping is based on the 2015 Household Budget Survey and the 2014 Population and Housing Census.
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author Betti, Gianni
Molini, Vasco
Pavelesku, Dan
author_facet Betti, Gianni
Molini, Vasco
Pavelesku, Dan
author_sort Betti, Gianni
title Using Poverty Maps to Improve the Design of Household Surveys : The Evidence from Tunisia
title_short Using Poverty Maps to Improve the Design of Household Surveys : The Evidence from Tunisia
title_full Using Poverty Maps to Improve the Design of Household Surveys : The Evidence from Tunisia
title_fullStr Using Poverty Maps to Improve the Design of Household Surveys : The Evidence from Tunisia
title_full_unstemmed Using Poverty Maps to Improve the Design of Household Surveys : The Evidence from Tunisia
title_sort using poverty maps to improve the design of household surveys : the evidence from tunisia
publisher World Bank, Washington, DC
publishDate 2021
url http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/530521620065713055/Using-Poverty-Maps-to-Improve-the-Design-of-Household-Surveys-The-Evidence-from-Tunisia
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