Tracking Poverty over Time in the Absence of Comparable Consumption Data

Following the endorsement of the Millennium Development Goals, there is an increasing demand for methods to track poverty regularly. This paper develops an economically intuitive and inexpensive methodology to do so in the absence of regular, comparable data on household consumption. The minimum dat...

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Main Authors:	Stifel, David, Christiaensen, Luc
Format:	Policy Research Working Paper
Language:	English
Published:	World Bank, Washington, DC 2012
Subjects:	AGRICULTURAL PERFORMANCE AGRICULTURAL POLICY AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION AGRICULTURE ASSET HOLDINGS BASE YEAR CHANGES IN POVERTY COMMUNITY ASSETS COMPARING POVERTY CONSUMPTION BASKET CONSUMPTION DATA CONSUMPTION GROWTH CONSUMPTION LEVELS CONSUMPTION MEASURE CONSUMPTION MEASURES CONSUMPTION SURVEYS CORRELATION COEFFICIENT COVARIANCE MATRIX DATA REQUIREMENTS DECLINE IN POVERTY DEFLATORS DEVELOPING COUNTRIES DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS DEVELOPMENT GOALS DEVELOPMENT INDICATORS DEVELOPMENT ISSUES ECONOMETRIC ANALYSIS ECONOMIC GROWTH ECONOMIC STUDIES ECONOMIC SYSTEMS ECONOMIC THEORY EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT EMPIRICAL APPLICATION EMPIRICAL MODEL EMPIRICAL RESULTS ESTIMATED COEFFICIENTS EXPECTED VALUE FOOD POLICY GDP GDP PER CAPITA HEADCOUNT RATIO HOUSEHOLD BUDGET HOUSEHOLD CHARACTERISTICS HOUSEHOLD CONSUMPTION HOUSEHOLD DEMOGRAPHICS HOUSEHOLD EXPENDITURE HOUSEHOLD EXPENDITURES HOUSEHOLD HEAD HOUSEHOLD INCOME HOUSEHOLD LEVEL HOUSEHOLD MEMBERS HOUSEHOLD SIZE HOUSEHOLD SURVEYS HOUSEHOLD VULNERABILITY HOUSEHOLD WELFARE HOUSING HUMAN CAPITAL HUMAN DEVELOPMENT INCOME DISTRIBUTION INCOME MEASURES INFANT MORTALITY LAND HOLDINGS LANDHOLDINGS LIVELIHOOD LIVELIHOODS LIVING STANDARDS LIVING STANDARDS MEASUREMENT MALNUTRITION MEASUREMENT OF POVERTY MEASURING POVERTY NATIONAL ACCOUNTS NATIONAL POVERTY NEGATIVE SIGN NORMAL DISTRIBUTION NUTRITIONAL STATUS OFFICIAL POVERTY OFFICIAL POVERTY LINE POLICY RESEARCH POOR PEOPLE POVERTY ANALYSIS POVERTY CHANGE POVERTY COMPARISONS POVERTY ESTIMATES POVERTY GAP POVERTY INCIDENCE POVERTY INDICES POVERTY LEVELS POVERTY LINE POVERTY LINES POVERTY MAPPING POVERTY MEASURE POVERTY MEASUREMENT POVERTY MEASURES POVERTY RATES POVERTY REDUCTION POVERTY SEVERITY PRICE ELASTICITY PRIMARY EDUCATION PUBLIC GOODS RANK CORRELATION REDUCING POVERTY REDUCTION IN POVERTY RELATIVE PRICE RURAL AREAS RURAL HOUSEHOLDS RURAL POVERTY RURAL WELFARE SANITATION SECONDARY ENROLLMENT SECONDARY ENROLLMENT RATES SIGNIFICANT REDUCTION SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA URBAN AREAS URBAN POVERTY UTILITY THEORY VALUATION VULNERABLE GROUPS WEALTH WELFARE INDICATOR WELFARE MEASURE WELFARE MEASURES WELFARE MONITORING
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2006/01/6525911/tracking-poverty-over-time-absence-comparable-consumption-data http://hdl.handle.net/10986/8790

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Summary:	Following the endorsement of the Millennium Development Goals, there is an increasing demand for methods to track poverty regularly. This paper develops an economically intuitive and inexpensive methodology to do so in the absence of regular, comparable data on household consumption. The minimum data requirements for the methodology are the availability of a household budget survey and a series of surveys with a comparable set of asset data also contained in the budget survey. The methodology is illustrated using a series of Demographic Health Surveys from Kenya.

Tracking Poverty over Time in the Absence of Comparable Consumption Data

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