Living Standards Analytics Development through the Lens of Household Survey Data /

• Main Authors: Haughton, Dominique (Author), Haughton, Jonathan (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2011.
• Series: Statistics for Social and Behavioral Sciences
• Subjects: Statistics.; Statistics for Social Science, Behavorial Science, Education, Public Policy, and Law.

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...

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.