Is Predicted Data a Viable Alternative to Real Data?

It is costly to collect the household- and individual-level data that underlies official estimates of poverty and health. For this reason, developing countries often do not have the budget to update their estimates of poverty and health regularly,...

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Main Authors: Fujii, Tomoki, van der Weide, Roy
Format: Working Paper
Language:English
en_US
Published: World Bank, Washington, DC 2016
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Online Access:http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2016/09/26822026/predicted-data-viable-alternative-real-data
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/25156