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Updating Poverty Maps without Panel Data: Evidence from Vietnam

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A household survey and a census can be combined to estimate a poverty map for small areas. Ideally, the survey and the census should be conducted in the same year. In several empirical applications, however, survey and census years can be different, which might make poverty estimates biased. Using data from the Vietnam Household Living Standard Survey 2002 and the 1999 Population and Housing Census, the present paper produces a 2002 poverty map for Vietnam and describes the biases when the survey and census years are not coincident. It is found that poverty estimates from the poverty mapping method taking into account the time difference between the survey and the census are quite close to survey‐based estimates, at least at the regional level.

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  • Nguyen Viet Cuong, 2009. "Updating Poverty Maps without Panel Data: Evidence from Vietnam," Asian Economic Journal, East Asian Economic Association, vol. 23(4), pages 397-418, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:asiaec:v:23:y:2009:i:4:p:397-418
    DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8381.2009.02020.x
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