Hierarchical bayesian estimation of poverty incidence for the provincial level in the Philippines

• Main Authors: Garcia, Harley A., Uy, Mariel V.
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Animo Repository 2014
• Subjects: Physical Sciences and Mathematics
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/etd_bachelors/18008
• Institution: De La Salle University

Poverty incidence is defined as the inability of a household to meet the poverty threshold. In order to provide reliable statistics at the provincial level, the government relied on direct small area estimation. The poverty incidence estimates provided by the direct estimation methods have noticeabl...