Is Predicted Data a Viable Alternative to Real Data?

• Main Authors: FUJII, Tomoki, VAN DER WEIDE, Roy
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2016
• Subjects: Prediction; Double sampling; Survey costs; Poverty; Income Distribution; Public Economics
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soe_research/2295; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soe_research/article/3294/viewcontent/WPS7841.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

It is costly to collect the household- and individual-level data that underlies official estimates of poverty and health. For this reason, developing countries often do not have the budget to update their estimates of poverty and health regularly, even though these estimates are most needed there. O...