Commune-Level Estimation of Poverty Measures and its Application in Cambodia

In this study, the Cambodian socioeconomic survey for 1997 and the country’s population census of 1998 has been combined to produce poverty measures at the commune-level in Cambodia using the small-area estimation technique developed by Elbers, Lanjouw and Lanjouw. While there are a number of communes for which the standard errors associated with the estimates are too high, it has been found that they are on average small enough to be useful. The application of poverty maps with reference to education programmes is also illustrated here. [Research Paper No. 2004/48] URL: [http://www.wider.unu.edu/publications/working-papers/research-papers/2004/en_GB/rp2004-048/_files/78091746047362241/default/rp2004-048.pdf]