Poverty Mapping in Tajikistan : Method and Key Findings

National poverty rates are traditionally measured using survey data. To allow for frequent monitoring and to contain the costs of gathering detailed information, such surveys sample only a small subset of the population. This approach necessarily l...

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spelling okr-10986-253622021-05-25T08:55:15Z Poverty Mapping in Tajikistan : Method and Key Findings World Bank Group poverty assessment poverty map poverty line census National poverty rates are traditionally measured using survey data. To allow for frequent monitoring and to contain the costs of gathering detailed information, such surveys sample only a small subset of the population. This approach necessarily leads to sampling errors however, and as a consequence, a typical household income or expenditure survey cannot produce statistically reliable poverty estimates for small geographic units. This report discusses two means of addressing the issue. The first is commonly referred to as poverty mapping, and derives estimates of monetary poverty as it was officially measured in Tajikistan at the time of the surveys used in the analysis. The second is a multi-dimensional poverty index (MPI) that combines information about individual deprivations to summarize a complimentary, but unofficial, measure of poverty incidence. Poverty mapping is a powerful approach to measuring welfare for highly disaggregated geographic units. A variety of poverty mapping methods have been devised to overcome the increasing imprecision of poverty estimates as they are disaggregated. The standard strategy for estimating a poverty map involves three main stages: (a) identify a comparable set of variables that appear in both the census and the household survey; (b) estimate consumption as a function of the comparable set of variables; and (c) compute welfare indicators on census records based on the parameters derived from the estimations carried out on data from the household survey. 2016-11-16T21:36:15Z 2016-11-16T21:36:15Z 2016-04-25 Report http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/713451478847091020/Poverty-mapping-in-Tajikistan-method-and-key-findings http://hdl.handle.net/10986/25362 English en_US CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/ World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Economic & Sector Work :: Poverty Assessment Economic & Sector Work Europe and Central Asia Tajikistan
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census
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Poverty Mapping in Tajikistan : Method and Key Findings
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description National poverty rates are traditionally measured using survey data. To allow for frequent monitoring and to contain the costs of gathering detailed information, such surveys sample only a small subset of the population. This approach necessarily leads to sampling errors however, and as a consequence, a typical household income or expenditure survey cannot produce statistically reliable poverty estimates for small geographic units. This report discusses two means of addressing the issue. The first is commonly referred to as poverty mapping, and derives estimates of monetary poverty as it was officially measured in Tajikistan at the time of the surveys used in the analysis. The second is a multi-dimensional poverty index (MPI) that combines information about individual deprivations to summarize a complimentary, but unofficial, measure of poverty incidence. Poverty mapping is a powerful approach to measuring welfare for highly disaggregated geographic units. A variety of poverty mapping methods have been devised to overcome the increasing imprecision of poverty estimates as they are disaggregated. The standard strategy for estimating a poverty map involves three main stages: (a) identify a comparable set of variables that appear in both the census and the household survey; (b) estimate consumption as a function of the comparable set of variables; and (c) compute welfare indicators on census records based on the parameters derived from the estimations carried out on data from the household survey.
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title Poverty Mapping in Tajikistan : Method and Key Findings
title_short Poverty Mapping in Tajikistan : Method and Key Findings
title_full Poverty Mapping in Tajikistan : Method and Key Findings
title_fullStr Poverty Mapping in Tajikistan : Method and Key Findings
title_full_unstemmed Poverty Mapping in Tajikistan : Method and Key Findings
title_sort poverty mapping in tajikistan : method and key findings
publisher World Bank, Washington, DC
publishDate 2016
url http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/713451478847091020/Poverty-mapping-in-Tajikistan-method-and-key-findings
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