Coondoo, Dipankor; Majumder, Amita; Chattopadhyay, Somnath - In: Journal of Applied Statistics 38 (2011) 10, pp. 2327-2343
This paper develops a method of estimating micro-level poverty in cases where data are scarce. The method is applied to estimate district-level poverty using the household level Indian national sample survey data for two states, viz., West Bengal and Madhya Pradesh. The method involves...