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
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GDP
Online Access:http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2006/01/6525911/tracking-poverty-over-time-absence-comparable-consumption-data
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spelling okr-10986-87902021-04-23T14:02:40Z Tracking Poverty over Time in the Absence of Comparable Consumption Data Stifel, David Christiaensen, Luc 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 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. 2012-06-22T15:55:04Z 2012-06-22T15:55:04Z 2006-01 http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2006/01/6525911/tracking-poverty-over-time-absence-comparable-consumption-data http://hdl.handle.net/10986/8790 English Policy Research Working Paper; No. 3810 CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/ World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper Publications & Research Africa Kenya
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topic 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
spellingShingle 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
Stifel, David
Christiaensen, Luc
Tracking Poverty over Time in the Absence of Comparable Consumption Data
geographic_facet Africa
Kenya
relation Policy Research Working Paper; No. 3810
description 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.
format Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper
author Stifel, David
Christiaensen, Luc
author_facet Stifel, David
Christiaensen, Luc
author_sort Stifel, David
title Tracking Poverty over Time in the Absence of Comparable Consumption Data
title_short Tracking Poverty over Time in the Absence of Comparable Consumption Data
title_full Tracking Poverty over Time in the Absence of Comparable Consumption Data
title_fullStr Tracking Poverty over Time in the Absence of Comparable Consumption Data
title_full_unstemmed Tracking Poverty over Time in the Absence of Comparable Consumption Data
title_sort tracking poverty over time in the absence of comparable consumption data
publisher World Bank, Washington, DC
publishDate 2012
url 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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