| Author(s) |
The Gambia Bureau Of Statistics, Department of State for finance and Economic Affairs |
| Date |
2007-03-01 |
| Country |
Gambia |
| Language |
English |
| Contributor(s) |
Chritopher Muller Abu Camara Lamin Fatty Gambia Bureau Of Statistics World Bank Capacity Building for Economic Management Project |
| Publisher(s) |
Gambia Bureau Of Statistics |
| Description |
The methodology of the analysis of the Integrated Household Survey
namely the poverty analysis, the living standard analysis of Gambian Households
and consumption. |
| Table of contents |
Table of Contents
Executive Summary 5
1. Introduction 5
2. The Data Treatment 6
2.1. The survey and the data files 6
2.2. The data situation 10
2.3. Installation and training of Abu and Fatty 12
2.4. Basic checks 13
2.5. The ancillary files 17
2.5.1. The sampling database 17
2.5.2. The price database 22
2.5.3. The household characteristics database 28
2.5.4. The environment database 28
2.6. Aggregation of files incorporating consumption information 28
2.6.1. The aggregation of the daily diaries 29
2.6.2. A new nomenclature of products for the analysis 30
2.6.3. The extrapolation to the year 31
2.6.4. The issue of missing own-consumption and gifts 32
2.6.5. Matching the questionnaires 32
2.6.6. The final household consumption indicators 37
2.6.7. The estimators of consumption means and totals 37 4
3. The Methods for the Poverty Analysis 37
3.1. The poverty measures 37
3.2. The poverty lines 40
3.3. The estimates of the poverty lines 57
4. Recommendations for future work 58
4.1. Publication strategy 58
4.2. CPI 58
4.3. Extension to the present analyses with new variables 59
4.4. Other central tendencies or other categories of products 60
4.5. Quarterly analyses and prices 60
4.6. Comparison with other countries 61
4.7. Omissions of own-consumption and gifts 62
4.8. Comparison with the past: What can be done? 63
4.9. Poverty map 64
4.10. Other modules 65
4.11. Robustness to the poverty line, to equivalence scale and multivariate welfare attributes 66
Appendix 1: Persons met during the mission 68
Appendix 2: References 69
Appendix 3: Abbreviations 75
Appendix 4: The nomenclature of products for the analysis 76 |
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