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sample frame, 11, 12 sampling, implications of, 13–16, 14t, 15f unit of observation, 11 use of. See using survey data households characteristics associated with poverty, 149–52 composition differences, accounting for. See comparisons across households LSMS questionnaire, 18 panel impact analysis, 269 utility, measuring, 20 housing services, 27, 35n2–3 Huppi, Monika, 130, 132
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ICP (International Comparison Project), UN, 188 ICRISAT (Institute for Crop Research in the Semi-Arid Tropics), 206 idiosyncratic error, 138 IFLS (Indonesia Family Life Survey), 224 IFPRI (International Food Policy Research Institute), 269 impact evaluations, 251, 256 exercises, 399–401 macro projects, 268–70 CGE models, 269 household panel impact analysis, 269 self-rated retrospective evaluation, 269–70 time series data analysis, 268–69 micro projects, 256–68 case studies, 261–62b, 264–66b counterfactual, concept of, 257 double difference or difference-indifference method, 262–63 experimental design, 257–58 instrumental variables, 263–67, 264–66b matching comparisons, 260–61 qualitative methods, 268 quasi-experimental design, 259–60 randomization, 258 reflexive comparisons, 267 incidence analysis. See taxation and spending, effects of income distribution dynamics, 115–17, 117t household survey data, 11, 16 household utility, measuring, 20 indicators of welfare, defining, 22–23, 23t, 24f, 30–31, 30t inequality, measuring. See under inequality international poverty comparisons, 183–84 lifecycle hypothesis, 24f
reducing poverty by increasing security of, 174–75 understatement of, 23t, 24–25 variability issues, 16 indexes of poverty. See poverty indexes India and Indian National Sample Surveys (NSS) equivalence scales, 90, 91t food energy intake method of computing poverty lines, 56t international poverty comparisons, 185t, 186–87, 187t, 189, 191, 199 peer or observer assessments, 33–34 poverty lines, 46b poverty profiles showing changes over time, 127 price indexes, 324–28, 325t recall periods, 323, 324f reduction of poverty in, 172 taxation and spending, effects of, 308 time, measuring poverty over, 206 Watts index, 78t indicators of welfare, defining, 20–34 alternative measures, 20, 32–34, 33f, 34t consumption expenditure. See under consumption expenditure income, 22–23, 23t, 24f, 30–31, 30t measuring poverty, as step in, 10–11 monitoring and evaluation systems, 251, 254 review questions, 31–32, 35 welfarist approach, 20 individuals characteristics associated with poverty, 149–52, 371 measures of poverty at level of, 15–16, 69–70 Indonesia and Indonesia National Socioeconomic Survey (SUSENAS) CPIs, use of, 199 microfinance in, 266b poverty lines, 43, 46b, 47, 56–58, 56t, 57t, 58f, 59t–f poverty profiles, 130–32, 131–32t time, measuring poverty over, 212. See also under Asian financial crisis (1997–98) vulnerability to poverty, 240t, 242 Indonesia Family Life Survey (IFLS), 224 Indonesia National Labor Force Survey (SAKERNAS), 206 inequality, 101–20 Atkinson’s inequality measures, 107–8, 108t as cause of poverty, 147–48 decile dispersion ratio, 104 defined, 3, 102–3