Project Overview
UN Steering Committee on Poverty Statistics
  Activities and Meetings
  Outline of the Handbook as of October 2003
  Outline of the Handbook as of July 2004
Instructions on the Format of Manuscripts
   
  Chapter 1. Preface and introduction
Chapter 2. Overview of concepts and fundamentals of poverty measurements
  Chapter 3. Practices of poverty measurements
  Chapter 4. Statistical tools and estimation methods for poverty measures based on household surveys
  Chapter 5. Statistical issues in measuring poverty from non-survey sources
  Chapter 6. Poverty analysis for national policy use: poverty profiles, mapping and dynamics
  Chapter 7. Conclusions and recommendations
  Addendum
 
 
 

ST/ESA/STAT/POVERTY/WWW
1 February 2004

Handbook on Poverty Statistics:
Concepts, Methods and Policy Use

Chapter 5. Statistical issues in measuring poverty from non-survey sources

To review other sources of data for poverty assessments: National accounts, population censuses, public sector financial data, administrative records from line ministries and qualitative data from participatory techniques; To address the current debate on the (mis) use of national accounts for poverty measures and to discuss alternatives for reconciling the survey and national accounts estimate of household consumption through a harmonized approach to household survey and national accounts.