Poverty in Iraq, 2012-2014
This note describes the methodology used for estimating trends in poverty rates for Iraq using the 2012 Iraq household socio-economic survey and the 2014 continuous household survey; and presents the finding. The 2014 survey was designed to provide...
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| Language: | English en_US |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2016
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2016/07/26580475/poverty-iraq-2012-2014 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/24975 |
| Summary: | This note describes the methodology used
for estimating trends in poverty rates for Iraq using the
2012 Iraq household socio-economic survey and the 2014
continuous household survey; and presents the finding. The
2014 survey was designed to provide comparable and more
frequent estimates of poverty, but fieldwork was disrupted
in the second half of 2014 due to a deteriorating security
situation. The methodology described in this note implements
adjustments to weights and re-estimates the poverty line to
establish poverty trends between the first half of 2012 and
the first half of 2014 for all 18 governorates of Iraq;
between 2012 and 2014 for these 13 governorates. The first
set of estimates show that the pace of poverty reduction in
Iraq was accelerating until the first half of 2014, while
the second and third set of estimates quantify the adverse
impact of the 2014 crisis on welfare in 13 governorates of Iraq. |
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