Living Standards Analytics Development through the Lens of Household Survey Data

The purpose of this book is to introduce, discuss, illustrate, and evaluate the colorful palette of analytical techniques that can be applied to the analysis of household survey data, with an emphasis on the innovations of the past decade or so. Most of the chapters begin by introducing a methodolog...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Haughton, Dominique, Haughton, Jonathan (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY Springer New York 2011, 2011
Edition:1st ed. 2011
Series:Statistics for Social and Behavioral Sciences
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Graphical exploratory methods
  • Sample size issues
  • Beyond linear regression
  • Adjustment for spatial correlation
  • The issue of causality
  • Non-homogeneity/mixtures
  • Bayesian analysis
  • Grouping methods
  • Panel data issues
  • Measures of poverty and inequality
  • Bootstrap
  • Fuzzy methods for poverty measures
  • Combining data sets