The general conclusion of this report is that, based on the 2005 Population and Housing Census of Bhutan (PHCB2005) and the 2007 Bhutan Living Standard Survey (BLSS2007), small area estimation of poverty incidence, gap, and severity, and undernourishment are feasible for Bhutan at constituency level (of which there are 47). Constituencies consist of gewogs in rural areas, and towns in urban areas. Such small area estimates will also be feasible for the larger gewogs and towns, and are likely to be feasible for the majority of the remaining gewogs and towns (of which there are approximately 250 in total) even if they contain no sampled households from BLSS2007. If no small area estimates of
undernourishment, and poverty incidence, gap and severity, are possible for the smallest towns and gewogs, suitable amalgamation of geographically adjacent areas should still provide suitably accurate small area estimates for poverty maps.