Publication: Kyrgyz Republic - Poverty Mapping : Methodology and Key Findings
Date
2013-04
ISSN
Published
2013-04
Author(s)
Mahadevan, Meera
Yoshida, Nobuo
Praslova, Larisa
Abstract
This report poverty mapping for Kyrgyz
describes the process of and results from a poverty mapping
exercise for the Kyrgyz Republic, using the Kyrgyz
Integrated Household Survey (KIHS 2009) and the Population
and Housing Census (2009). Poverty mapping is an exercise to
estimate poverty incidence at a level where a typical
household income and expenditure survey cannot produce
statistically reliable poverty estimates due to high
sampling errors. In the Kyrgyz Republic, official poverty
rates are not produced below oblast level, as the sampling
errors of the survey data become non negligible. Various
poverty mapping methodologies were devised to overcome
increasing imprecision of poverty estimates as they are
disaggregated. The goal for the poverty maps of the Kyrgyz
Republic was to obtain poverty estimates at rayon or
district level, a level at which the survey is not
representative. For the purposes of this poverty map, all 7
oblasts of the Kyrgyz Republic have been considered and one
out of the two cities holding a similar status to oblasts.
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Citation
“Mahadevan, Meera; Yoshida, Nobuo; Praslova, Larisa. 2013. Kyrgyz Republic - Poverty Mapping : Methodology and Key Findings. The World Bank Group Africa region poverty reduction and economic management;. © World Bank, Washington, DC. http://hdl.handle.net/10986/16548 License: CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 IGO.”