How Good a Map? Putting Small Area Estimation to the Test

The authors examine the performance of small area welfare estimation. The method combines census and survey data to produce spatially disaggregated poverty and inequality estimates. To test the method, they compare predicted welfare indicators for...

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Main Authors:	Demombynes, Gabriel, Elbers, Chris, Lanjouw, Jean O., Lanjouw, Peter
Format:	Policy Research Working Paper
Language:	English
Published:	World Bank, Washington, DC 2012
Subjects:	APPROACH CAPITA CONSUMPTION CAPITA EXPENDITURE CASE STUDY CENSUSES COMMUNITY LEVEL CONSUMPTION LEVEL CONSUMPTION MODEL CONSUMPTION SMOOTHING CORRELATIONS DEGREES OF FREEDOM DELTA METHOD DEVELOPING COUNTRIES DISTRICT-LEVEL DISTURBANCE TERM ECONOMIC GROWTH EDUCATION ESTIMATES OF POVERTY ESTIMATION OF POVERTY ESTIMATION PROCEDURE EXPERIMENTS EXPLANATORY VARIABLES FOLLOW UP SURVEYS GEOGRAPHIC PROFILE OF POVERTY HEADCOUNT RATE HEALTH HOUSEHOLD INCOME HOUSEHOLD SIZE HOUSEHOLD SURVEY HOUSEHOLD SURVEY DATA HOUSEHOLD WELFARE HOUSEHOLDS IDIOSYNCRATIC COMPONENT IDIOSYNCRATIC ERROR INCOME INCOME DATA INEQUALITY LEVEL ESTIMATION OF WELFARE LEVEL OF AGGREGATION NUMBER OF HOUSEHOLDS NUTRITION PARAMETER ESTIMATES PARAMETRIC PARAMETRIC APPROACH PARAMETRIC DISTRIBUTIONS POLICY RESEARCH POLICY RESEARCH WORKING PAPER POOR POOR COMMUNITIES POOR HOUSEHOLDS POPULATION CENSUS POPULATION SIZE POVERTY GAP POVERTY INDICES POVERTY LINE POVERTY MAPPING POVERTY MAPPING METHODOLOGY POVERTY MAPS POVERTY MEASURES POVERTY RATE PROGRESS REGRESSORS RELIABILITY RESEARCH WORKING PAPERS RESEARCHERS RURAL SIMULATION SIMULATION METHODS SIMULATION PROCEDURES SIMULATIONS SMALL AREA ESTIMATION SOCIAL SPENDING SPATIAL DIMENSIONS OF POVERTY STANDARD DEVIATION STANDARD ERROR STANDARD ERRORS TARGETING TECHNIQUES TIME SERIES ANALYSIS VARIANCE-COVARIANCE MATRIX WELFARE INDICATORS
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2007/03/7488024/good-map-putting-small-area-estimation-test http://hdl.handle.net/10986/7040

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http://hdl.handle.net/10986/7040

How Good a Map? Putting Small Area Estimation to the Test

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