Poverty Mapping (Small-Area Estimation)
ELL poverty mapping, named after Chris Elbers, Jean Lanjouw, and Peter Lanjouw, is a small-area estimation method that produces poverty and inequality estimates for geographic units far smaller than a household survey can support on its own. It combines two data sources: a detailed household survey that measures consumption but covers too few households per locality, and a population census that covers everyone but does not measure consumption. The method estimates a model of consumption on variables common to both, imputes consumption into the census, and simulates to generate poverty estimates — with statistically valid standard errors — for districts, communes, or even villages, which are then drawn as poverty maps.
Source record
Citations copied verbatim from the method’s source record. No claim-level verification is inferred from them.
- Elbers, C., Lanjouw, J. O., & Lanjouw, P. (2003). Micro-Level Estimation of Poverty and Inequality. Econometrica, 71(1), 355-364. · DOI 10.1111/1468-0262.00399
- Bedi, T., Coudouel, A., & Simler, K. (Eds.) (2007). More Than a Pretty Picture: Using Poverty Maps to Design Better Policies and Interventions. World Bank, Washington, DC. · ISBN 9780821369319
Curated claims
Claims persisted in the evidence ledger, each with its own assessment.
This view does not invent a claim assessment when the ledger has none.
Related methods
Generated from the method graph and shown as machine-suggested relations — no evidence claim is inferred.