Brazil 2020 Data Update : Methodological Adjustments to the World Bank’s Poverty and Inequality Estimates

The Continuous National Household Sample Survey (PNADC in Portuguese) is the main source of information for poverty monitoring in Brazil. The PNADC 2020 annual release was published in November 2021. The 2020 survey underwent methodological changes...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors:	Lara Ibarra, Gabriel, Vale, Ricardo Campante
Format:	Working Paper
Language:	English
Published:	World Bank, Washington, DC 2022
Subjects:	POVERTY INEQUALITY COVID-19 PANDEMIC CORONAVIRUS EMERGENCY TRANSFERS AUXILIO EMERGENCIAL (AE) CONTINUOUS NATIONAL HOUSEHOLD SAMPLE SURVEY (PNADC) MONTHY TRANSFERS INCOME AND POVERTY IN BRAZIL
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/099815204132219104/IDU0cdb267100a24104a010b1ab03dd511e0d135 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/37513

id	okr-10986-37513
recordtype	oai_dc
spelling	okr-10986-375132022-09-15T19:17:37Z Brazil 2020 Data Update : Methodological Adjustments to the World Bank’s Poverty and Inequality Estimates Lara Ibarra, Gabriel Vale, Ricardo Campante POVERTY INEQUALITY COVID-19 PANDEMIC CORONAVIRUS EMERGENCY TRANSFERS AUXILIO EMERGENCIAL (AE) CONTINUOUS NATIONAL HOUSEHOLD SAMPLE SURVEY (PNADC) MONTHY TRANSFERS EMERGENCY TRANSFERS INCOME AND POVERTY IN BRAZIL The Continuous National Household Sample Survey (PNADC in Portuguese) is the main source of information for poverty monitoring in Brazil. The PNADC 2020 annual release was published in November 2021. The 2020 survey underwent methodological changes compared to earlier years. Most changes do not affect comparability with previous years. However, there is evidence of significant under-coverage of the “Auxilio Emergencial” (AE) program. While administrative records indicate over 68 million AE recipients, only about 20 million are observed in the survey. This paper describes an approach to impute AE beneficiary status as a way to complement the observed AE status as reported in the survey and to better capture the evolution of income and poverty in Brazil during COVID-19. Incorporating eligibility criteria from the AE (demographic, employment, and income), the method results in 42.2 million AE recipients in the survey – leading to a more reasonable undercoverage rate. Sensitivity analyses find similar results. The adjustments described in this paper are included in the World Bank’s poverty and inequality estimates for Brazil 2020 (published in April 2022). The poverty estimates in 2020 are 13.1 percent at the US$5.50 poverty line and 1.7 percent at the US$1.90 line. The Gini coefficient is estimated at 0.488. 2022-06-09T16:52:05Z 2022-06-09T16:52:05Z 2022-03-31 Working Paper http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/099815204132219104/IDU0cdb267100a24104a010b1ab03dd511e0d135 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/37513 English Global Poverty Monitoring Technical Note;21 CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Working Paper Brazil
repository_type	Digital Repository
institution_category	Foreign Institution
institution	Digital Repositories
building	World Bank Open Knowledge Repository
collection	World Bank
language	English
topic	POVERTY INEQUALITY COVID-19 PANDEMIC CORONAVIRUS EMERGENCY TRANSFERS AUXILIO EMERGENCIAL (AE) CONTINUOUS NATIONAL HOUSEHOLD SAMPLE SURVEY (PNADC) MONTHY TRANSFERS EMERGENCY TRANSFERS INCOME AND POVERTY IN BRAZIL
spellingShingle	POVERTY INEQUALITY COVID-19 PANDEMIC CORONAVIRUS EMERGENCY TRANSFERS AUXILIO EMERGENCIAL (AE) CONTINUOUS NATIONAL HOUSEHOLD SAMPLE SURVEY (PNADC) MONTHY TRANSFERS EMERGENCY TRANSFERS INCOME AND POVERTY IN BRAZIL Lara Ibarra, Gabriel Vale, Ricardo Campante Brazil 2020 Data Update : Methodological Adjustments to the World Bank’s Poverty and Inequality Estimates
geographic_facet	Brazil
relation	Global Poverty Monitoring Technical Note;21
description	The Continuous National Household Sample Survey (PNADC in Portuguese) is the main source of information for poverty monitoring in Brazil. The PNADC 2020 annual release was published in November 2021. The 2020 survey underwent methodological changes compared to earlier years. Most changes do not affect comparability with previous years. However, there is evidence of significant under-coverage of the “Auxilio Emergencial” (AE) program. While administrative records indicate over 68 million AE recipients, only about 20 million are observed in the survey. This paper describes an approach to impute AE beneficiary status as a way to complement the observed AE status as reported in the survey and to better capture the evolution of income and poverty in Brazil during COVID-19. Incorporating eligibility criteria from the AE (demographic, employment, and income), the method results in 42.2 million AE recipients in the survey – leading to a more reasonable undercoverage rate. Sensitivity analyses find similar results. The adjustments described in this paper are included in the World Bank’s poverty and inequality estimates for Brazil 2020 (published in April 2022). The poverty estimates in 2020 are 13.1 percent at the US$5.50 poverty line and 1.7 percent at the US$1.90 line. The Gini coefficient is estimated at 0.488.
format	Working Paper
author	Lara Ibarra, Gabriel Vale, Ricardo Campante
author_facet	Lara Ibarra, Gabriel Vale, Ricardo Campante
author_sort	Lara Ibarra, Gabriel
title	Brazil 2020 Data Update : Methodological Adjustments to the World Bank’s Poverty and Inequality Estimates
title_short	Brazil 2020 Data Update : Methodological Adjustments to the World Bank’s Poverty and Inequality Estimates
title_full	Brazil 2020 Data Update : Methodological Adjustments to the World Bank’s Poverty and Inequality Estimates
title_fullStr	Brazil 2020 Data Update : Methodological Adjustments to the World Bank’s Poverty and Inequality Estimates
title_full_unstemmed	Brazil 2020 Data Update : Methodological Adjustments to the World Bank’s Poverty and Inequality Estimates
title_sort	brazil 2020 data update : methodological adjustments to the world bank’s poverty and inequality estimates
publisher	World Bank, Washington, DC
publishDate	2022
url	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/099815204132219104/IDU0cdb267100a24104a010b1ab03dd511e0d135 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/37513
_version_	1764487332272013312

Brazil 2020 Data Update : Methodological Adjustments to the World Bank’s Poverty and Inequality Estimates

Similar Items