Poverty Map of the Palestinian Territories

This technical report describes the methodology and data used to produce small area poverty estimates for the Palestinian territories. The first section presents the methodology. The second section describes the data, and the technical challenges in estimating poverty at the locality level. The third section discusses selection of the best model, its performance and conducts validation exercises. The fourth section shows poverty and inequality estimates for different levels.

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Main Authors: Palaniswamy, Nethra, Atamanov, Aziz
Format: Report biblioteca
Language:English
Published: World Bank, Washington, DC 2019-09
Subjects:POVERTY AND EQUITY, POVERTY MAP, INEQUALITY, HOUSEHOLD SURVEY, POVERTY LINE, POVERTY MEASUREMENT,
Online Access:http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/294671581117041764/Poverty-Map-of-the-Palestinian-Territories-Palestinian-Expenditure-and-Consumption-Survey-2016-and-Census-2017-Technical-Report
https://hdl.handle.net/10986/33374
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Summary:This technical report describes the methodology and data used to produce small area poverty estimates for the Palestinian territories. The first section presents the methodology. The second section describes the data, and the technical challenges in estimating poverty at the locality level. The third section discusses selection of the best model, its performance and conducts validation exercises. The fourth section shows poverty and inequality estimates for different levels.