Day 7: Measuring and Mapping
- Talk 1: Multiple malnutrition and food poverty (Dr Shailen Nandy)
- Talk 2: Small Area Estimation and mapping of poverty in Uganda (Dr Marco Pomati)
- Talk 3: Comparability of poverty estimates across social groups and over time (Dr Héctor Nájera)
Talk 1: Multiple malnutrition and food poverty
Dr Shailen Nandy (Cardiff University, UK)
Poverty manifests in many ways and commonly in the form of malnutrition. When children and their families lack the resources to secure sufficient and nutritious food or adequate living conditions, the results can literally be life threatening. This session looks at this most persistent and pressing of global challenges. It will introduce and explain data sources that researchers can use to analyse sub-national, national and international food insecurity and malnutrition and discuss the limitations of conventional indicators used to measure the extent and nature of child malnutrition.
Course materials
Multiple Malnutrition and Food Poverty (Shalien Nandy) (PDF, 1,893kB)
Malnutrición múltiple y pobreza alimentaria (Nandy) (PDF, 2,084kB)
Key readings
See p.29 of Advanced Poverty Research Methods Online Course - Programme (PDF, 673kB)
Talk 2: Small Area Estimation and mapping of poverty in Uganda
Dr Marco Pomati (Cardiff University, UK)
Poverty research uses survey data to produce estimates of the prevalence rates at national level. Sometimes household survey data have a sample frame that enables researchers to estimate poverty at regional level. However, these data are limited in that survey data is not designed to produce estimates of poverty for small areas such as counties, districts or municipalities. Thus, for policymakers is impossible to pinpoint the location of poverty and assign resources accordingly. Small-area estimation is a field that proposes a series of methods to model poverty and produce estimates using both survey and ancillary data. The course will introduce the literature and some of the methods involved in small-area estimation.
Course materials
Small Area Estimation and mapping of poverty in Uganda (Pomati) (PDF, 2,116kB)
Dr Marco Pomati Espanol (PDF, 2,142kB)
Key readings and speaker biography
See p.30 of Advanced Poverty Research Methods Online Course - Programme (PDF, 673kB)
Talk 3: Comparability of poverty estimates across social groups and over time
Dr Héctor Nájera (UNAM, Mexico)
Poverty researchers face the daunting task of making comparisons of poverty scores across groups, regions, countries and different time points. This begs the question: to what extent are those comparisons are fair, meaningful and valid. Do we need the very same indicators to make poverty comparisons? What if one indicator is useful in one country but not in another one? Or, instead, could we use different indicators to compare different countries in that their standards are different? How does this relate to relative and absolute poverty? The talk answers these questions using recent advancements in latent variable modelling.
Course materials
Comparabilidad_ENGLISH (PDF, 809kB)
Key readings
See p.31 of Advanced Poverty Research Methods Online Course - Programme (PDF, 673kB)