Publication: Monitoring Poverty Over Time : Some Lessons from Cote d'Ivoire
Date
1996-11
ISSN
Published
1996-11
Author(s)
Jones, Christine
Ye, Xiao
Abstract
This note explores some of the factors
that need to be taken into account in designing surveys, and
in comparing poverty indicators over time for effective
poverty monitoring. Cote d'Ivoire presents a number of
household surveys that should, in principle, allow
monitoring changes in poverty over time, including household
surveys conducted in 1993 and 1995. Problems of
comparability are highlighted, as are issues in generating
poverty data, in order to be compared reliably. Serious
problems that arouse from four main sources were: estimates
of input housing expenditure, the effects of seasonality on
household expenditure patterns, the method used to estimate
purchased food expenditure, and, the deficiencies of the
consumer price index.
Citation
“Jones, Christine; Ye, Xiao. 1996. Monitoring Poverty Over Time : Some Lessons from Cote d'Ivoire. Africa Region Findings & Good Practice Infobriefs; No. 75. © World Bank, Washington, DC. http://openknowledge.worldbank.org/entities/publication/af32748e-a221-5941-8fe0-f04fd05ef105 License: CC BY 3.0 IGO.”