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Poverty comparisons and household survey design, Volume 1

Author:	Howes, Steven; Lanjouw, Jean Olson;	Collection Title:	Living standards measurement study (LSMS) working paper ; no. LSM 129
Date Stored:	2003/01/24	Document Date:	1997/04/30
Document Type:	Publication	ISBN:	ISBN 0-8213-3862-5
Language:	English	Major Sector:	(Historic)Multisector
Report Number:	LSM129	Sub Sectors:	(Historic)Non-sector specific
SubTopics:	Scientific Research & Science Parks; Science Education; Poverty Assessment; Statistical & Mathematical Sciences; Poverty Impact Evaluation	Volume No:	1

Summary: Poverty comparisons - an increasingly important starting-point for welfare analysis - are almost always based on household surveys. They therefore require that one be able to distinguish underlying differences in the populations being compared from sampling variation: standard errors must be calculated. So far, this has largely been done on the assumption that the household surveys are simple random samples. But household surveys are more complex than this. We show that taking into account sampling design has a major effect on standard errors for well-know poverty measures: they can increase by around one-half. The report also shows that making only a partial correction for sample design (taking into account clustering, but not stratification whether explicit or implicit) can be as misleading as not taking any account at all of sampling design.


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