Monitoring Poverty Over Time : Some Lessons from Cote d'Ivoire

This note explores some of the factors that need to be taken into account in designing surveys, and in comparing poverty indicators over time for effective poverty monitoring. Cote d'Ivoire presents a number of household surveys that should, i...

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Main Authors:	Jones, Christine, Ye, Xiao
Format:	Brief
Language:	English
Published:	World Bank, Washington, DC 2012
Subjects:	POVERTY MONITORING CASE STUDIES PERFORMANCE INDICATORS POVERTY MEASUREMENT HOUSEHOLD SURVEYS COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS DATA GATHERING HOUSEHOLD EXPENDITURE SURVEYS SEASONAL FACTORS FOOD CONSUMPTION PATTERNS FOOD SECURITY METHODOLOGY CONSUMER PRICE INDEXES
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/1996/11/5496539/monitoring-poverty-over-time-some-lessons-cote-divoire http://hdl.handle.net/10986/9950

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spelling	okr-10986-99502021-04-23T14:02:47Z Monitoring Poverty Over Time : Some Lessons from Cote d'Ivoire Jones, Christine Ye, Xiao POVERTY MONITORING CASE STUDIES PERFORMANCE INDICATORS POVERTY MEASUREMENT HOUSEHOLD SURVEYS COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS DATA GATHERING HOUSEHOLD EXPENDITURE SURVEYS SEASONAL FACTORS FOOD CONSUMPTION PATTERNS FOOD SECURITY METHODOLOGY CONSUMER PRICE INDEXES This note explores some of the factors that need to be taken into account in designing surveys, and in comparing poverty indicators over time for effective poverty monitoring. Cote d'Ivoire presents a number of household surveys that should, in principle, allow monitoring changes in poverty over time, including household surveys conducted in 1993 and 1995. Problems of comparability are highlighted, as are issues in generating poverty data, in order to be compared reliably. Serious problems that arouse from four main sources were: estimates of input housing expenditure, the effects of seasonality on household expenditure patterns, the method used to estimate purchased food expenditure, and, the deficiencies of the consumer price index. 2012-08-13T09:58:08Z 2012-08-13T09:58:08Z 1996-11 http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/1996/11/5496539/monitoring-poverty-over-time-some-lessons-cote-divoire http://hdl.handle.net/10986/9950 English Africa Region Findings & Good Practice Infobriefs; No. 75 CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/ World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Publications & Research :: Brief Publications & Research Africa Cote d'Ivoire
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description	This note explores some of the factors that need to be taken into account in designing surveys, and in comparing poverty indicators over time for effective poverty monitoring. Cote d'Ivoire presents a number of household surveys that should, in principle, allow monitoring changes in poverty over time, including household surveys conducted in 1993 and 1995. Problems of comparability are highlighted, as are issues in generating poverty data, in order to be compared reliably. Serious problems that arouse from four main sources were: estimates of input housing expenditure, the effects of seasonality on household expenditure patterns, the method used to estimate purchased food expenditure, and, the deficiencies of the consumer price index.
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author	Jones, Christine Ye, Xiao
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title	Monitoring Poverty Over Time : Some Lessons from Cote d'Ivoire
title_short	Monitoring Poverty Over Time : Some Lessons from Cote d'Ivoire
title_full	Monitoring Poverty Over Time : Some Lessons from Cote d'Ivoire
title_fullStr	Monitoring Poverty Over Time : Some Lessons from Cote d'Ivoire
title_full_unstemmed	Monitoring Poverty Over Time : Some Lessons from Cote d'Ivoire
title_sort	monitoring poverty over time : some lessons from cote d'ivoire
publisher	World Bank, Washington, DC
publishDate	2012
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