Estimating Poverty in Kinshasa by Dealing with Sampling and Comparability Issues
This paper proposes monetary poverty and inequality estimates for Kinshasa using a new Kinshasa household survey implemented in 2018. Given the obsolescence of the sampling frame, the survey was sampled using satellite imagery. However, the collect...
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| Language: | English |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2021
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/undefined/629051637331820967/Estimating-Poverty-in-Kinshasa-by-Dealing-with-Sampling-and-Comparability-Issues http://hdl.handle.net/10986/36631 |
| Summary: | This paper proposes monetary poverty
and inequality estimates for Kinshasa using a new Kinshasa
household survey implemented in 2018. Given the obsolescence
of the sampling frame, the survey was sampled using
satellite imagery. However, the collection of data in the
field was affected by sampling errors that are likely to
compromise the representativeness of the sample. After
addressing these sampling issues and dealing with some
comparability issues with the 2012 survey, the paper shows
that poverty and inequality increased significantly during
2012–18 in Kinshasa. Poverty has increased in the city by 12
percentage points, from 53 to 65 percent, partly due to the
loss of purchasing power following the sharp depreciation in
2017. Other explanatory factors include demographic factors,
human capital, and spatial factors. The deterioration in
well-being also appears to have been exacerbated by the
onset of the COVID-19 pandemic through decline in labor and
nonlabor income and disruptions in goods and services
markets and public services. |
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