Understanding household income poverty at small area level

Poverty and Environment: Understanding Linkages at the Household Level

Small Area Household Projections

Poverty and Income Transfer Policy at the State Level

Using data from the March Current Population Surveys, this paper provides mid-1980s poverty rates by state under four alternative measures of poverty: the official measure, prewelfare poverty, pretransfer poverty (federal and state transfers), and a new measure, pre-state-transfer poverty. It also analyzes state-by-state the antipoverty effectiveness of transfers. The results show considerable ...

Small Area Estimation of the Mean of Household\'s Income in Selected Provinces of Iran with Hierarchical Bayes Approach

Extended Abstract. Small area estimation has received a lot of attention in recent years due to necessity demand for reliable small area statistics. Direct estimator may not provide adequate precision, because sample size in small areas is seldom large enough. Hence, by employing models that can use auxiliary information and area effects in descriptions, one can increase the precision of direct...

Introduction on Measuring Poverty at Local Level Using Small Area Estimation Methods

All over the world, fighting against poverty is assuming a more and more central role and recent radical economic and social transformations have caused a renewed interest in this field. Poverty is a complex concept. As a consequence, the focus should not be only on monetary poverty, but also on the larger concept of well-being, which preliminarily includes the definition and measure of the fol...