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.
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