This paper examines the performance small area of welfare estimation. The method combines census and survey data to produce spatially disaggregated poverty and inequality estimates. To test the method, predicted welfare indicators for a set of target populations are compared with their true...

Poverty maps provide information on the spatial distribution of living standards. They are an important tool to policymakers, who rely on them to allocate transfers and inform policy design. This article uses the case of Ecuador to demonstrate how sample survey data can be combined with census...