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	Living Standards Measurement Study	Poverty Mapping (Small-Area Estimation)
Campo	Development Studies	Development Studies
Famiglia	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
Anno di origine	1980	2003
Ideatore	World Bank (Living Standards Measurement Study programme)	Chris Elbers, Jean O. Lanjouw & Peter Lanjouw
Tipo	Multi-topic integrated household survey	Census-survey small-area poverty estimation method
Fonte seminale	Grosh, M., & Glewwe, P. (Eds.). (2000). Designing Household Survey Questionnaires for Developing Countries: Lessons from 15 Years of the Living Standards Measurement Study. Washington, DC: World Bank. ISBN: 9780821345283	Elbers, C., Lanjouw, J. O., & Lanjouw, P. (2003). Micro-Level Estimation of Poverty and Inequality. Econometrica, 71(1), 355-364.
Alias	LSMS, LSMS Survey, Living Standards Survey, Integrated Household Survey	ELL Method, Poverty Mapping, Census-Survey Poverty Estimation, Small-Area Poverty Estimation
Correlati	4	4
Sintesi	The Living Standards Measurement Study (LSMS) is a multi-topic integrated household survey programme launched by the World Bank in 1980 to improve the quality of household data for measuring and analysing welfare in developing countries. Built around a modular questionnaire that links a detailed household interview to community and price questionnaires, the LSMS measures living standards through consumption expenditure rather than income, and connects welfare outcomes to their determinants — employment, education, health, agriculture, and access to services — within a single, internally consistent dataset.	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.