Estimating Poverty in a Fragile Context : The High Frequency Survey in South Sudan
The High Frequency South Sudan Survey, implemented by the South Sudan National Bureau of Statistics in collaboration with the World Bank, conducted several waves of representative surveys across seven of the ten former states between 2015 and 2017....
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| Format: | Working Paper |
| Language: | English |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2019
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/917201548773499646/Estimating-Poverty-in-a-Fragile-Context-The-High-Frequency-Survey-in-South-Sudan http://hdl.handle.net/10986/31190 |
| Summary: | The High Frequency South Sudan Survey,
implemented by the South Sudan National Bureau of Statistics
in collaboration with the World Bank, conducted several
waves of representative surveys across seven of the ten
former states between 2015 and 2017. These surveys provided
a long overdue update to poverty numbers in South Sudan,
with the previous national poverty estimates dating as far
back as 2009. The escalation and expansion of the civil
conflict posed severe challenges to the planning and
implementation of fieldwork. The surveys therefore
capitalized on several technological and methodological
innovations to establish a reliable system of data
collection and obtain valid poverty estimates. Focusing on
the 2016 urban-rural wave, this paper describes the design
and analysis of the survey to arrive at reliable poverty
estimates for South Sudan, utilizing the Rapid Consumption
Methodology combined with geo-spatial data for inaccessible
survey areas. |
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