Over the past 15 years, the availability of cheap and convenient microcomputers has
changed the collection methods and analysis of household survey data in developing …

The objective of this book is to provide detailed advice on how to design multi-topic
household surveys based on the experience of past household surveys. The book will help …

Household surveys, one of the main innovations in social science research of the last
century, are threatened by declining accuracy due to reduced cooperation of respondents …

This paperback edition of an established text aims to deliver key information on social
research methods in developing countries. It deals with the particular problems of carrying …

In recent years, household survey data from developing countries have increasingly become
available and have been increasingly used to cast light on important questions of policy. The …

Abstract Since 1985, the World Bank has been collecting household survey data in
developing countries that provide a rich source of information for assessing household …

This book reviews techniques and tools that can be used to evaluate the poverty and
distributional impact of economic policy choices. It describes the most robust techniques and …

This book, a collection of articles and papers, reviews techniques and tools that can be used
to evaluate the poverty and distributional impact of economic policy choices. Following are …

This study tests the null hypothesis that it is sufficient to interview only the household head to
obtain accurate information on household income. Results show that using a husband's …

Economics is commonly associated with the use of quantitative methods, and because of
this, supposedly, the discipline is more “rigorous” than other social sciences, which are in …