How Good is a Map? Putting Small Area Estimation to the Test

Name: How Good is a Map? Putting Small Area Estimation to the Test
Brand: Vita e Pensiero
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Article

Magazine

RIVISTA INTERNAZIONALE DI SCIENZE SOCIALI

Issue

RIVISTA INTERNAZIONALE DI SCIENZE SOCIALI - 2008 - 4

Title

How Good is a Map? Putting Small Area Estimation to the Test

Authors

Gabriel Demombynes, Chris Elbers, Jean O. Lanjouw, Peter Lanjouw

Publisher

Vita e Pensiero

Format

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Pages

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04-2008

Issn

0035-676X (print) | 1827-7918 (digital)

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This paper examines the performance small area of welfare estimation. The method combines census and survey data to produce spatially disaggregated poverty and inequality estimates. To test the method, predicted welfare indicators for a set of target populations are compared with their true values. The target populations are constructed using actual data from a census of households in a set of rural Mexican communities. Estimates are examined along three criteria: accuracy of confidence intervals, bias and correlation with true values. We find that while point estimates are very stable, the precision of the estimates varies with alternative simulation methods. Precision of estimates is shown to diminish markedly if unobserved location effects at the village level are not well captured in underlying consumption models. With well specified models there is only slight evidence of bias, but we show that bias increases if underlying models fail to capture latent location effects.