Monitoring Poverty Over Time : Some Lessons from Cote d'Ivoire
This note explores some of the factors that need to be taken into account in designing surveys, and in comparing poverty indicators over time for effective poverty monitoring. Cote d'Ivoire presents a number of household surveys that should, in principle, allow monitoring changes in poverty over time, including household surveys conducted in 1993 and 1995. Problems of comparability are highlighted, as are issues in generating poverty data, in order to be compared reliably. Serious problems that arouse from four main sources were: estimates of input housing expenditure, the effects of seasonality on household expenditure patterns, the method used to estimate purchased food expenditure, and, the deficiencies of the consumer price index.
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| Language: | English |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
1996-11
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| Subjects: | POVERTY MONITORING, CASE STUDIES, PERFORMANCE INDICATORS, POVERTY MEASUREMENT, HOUSEHOLD SURVEYS, COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS, DATA GATHERING, HOUSEHOLD EXPENDITURE SURVEYS, SEASONAL FACTORS, FOOD CONSUMPTION PATTERNS, FOOD SECURITY, METHODOLOGY, CONSUMER PRICE INDEXES, |
| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/1996/11/5496539/monitoring-poverty-over-time-some-lessons-cote-divoire https://hdl.handle.net/10986/9950 |
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| Summary: | This note explores some of the factors
that need to be taken into account in designing surveys, and
in comparing poverty indicators over time for effective
poverty monitoring. Cote d'Ivoire presents a number of
household surveys that should, in principle, allow
monitoring changes in poverty over time, including household
surveys conducted in 1993 and 1995. Problems of
comparability are highlighted, as are issues in generating
poverty data, in order to be compared reliably. Serious
problems that arouse from four main sources were: estimates
of input housing expenditure, the effects of seasonality on
household expenditure patterns, the method used to estimate
purchased food expenditure, and, the deficiencies of the
consumer price index. |
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