Publication: The West and Central Africa Poverty Mapping Initiative
Date
2007-10
ISSN
Published
2007-10
Author(s)
Abstract
There are often large regional
differences in poverty and other social indicators within a
country. But geographic poverty profiles based on household
surveys tend to be limited to broad areas because survey
sample sizes are too small to permit analysts to construct
valid estimates of poverty at the local level. This issue of
Findings looks at another way to look at information by
constructing poverty maps. Using a methodology developed by
Elbers, Lanjouw, and Lanjouw (2003), detailed poverty maps
can be obtained by combining census and survey data. This
issue of Findings looks at how to construct such a map and
how to build capacity for the analysis of the census data.
Citation
“Wodon, Quentin; Coulombe, Harold. 2007. The West and Central Africa Poverty Mapping Initiative. Africa Region Findings & Good Practice Infobriefs; No. 280. © World Bank, Washington, DC. http://openknowledge.worldbank.org/entities/publication/ed378bd7-7c32-577d-8b02-862dea191b5e License: CC BY 3.0 IGO.”