Noncomparable Poverty Comparisons

• Tác giả: Dean Jolliffe
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 339.22 Distribution of aggregate personal income and wealth
• Thông tin xuất bản: Taylor and Francis, 2018
• Bộ sưu tập: Tài liệu truy cập mở
• ID: 293990
• Chủ đề: 1. GLOBAL POVERTY; 2. POVERTY MEASUREMENT; 3. POVERTY RATE; 4. REPEAT OBSERVATIONS; 5. SEASONALITY

Tóm tắt

Poverty estimates based on enumeration from a single point in time form the basis for most country-level analysis of poverty. Cross-country comparisons of poverty, and global counts of the poor, implicitly assume that country-level poverty headcounts are comparable. This paper illustrates that the assumption of comparability is potentially invalid when households are interviewed multiple times throughout the year, as opposed to a single-visit interview. An example from Jordan illustrates how the internationally comparable approach of handling data from repeat visits yields a poverty rate that is 26 per cent greater than the rate that is currently reported as the official estimate.