Relative to other household surveys

Relative to other household surveys, unusual effort went into obtaining accurate estimates of consumption and income from the 1996–2000 and 2004/05 surveys. The household surveys from 1996 onwards were closely modeled on NBS's Rural Household Survey (RHS) (which is described in detail in Chen and Ravallion, 1996). For the 2004/05 follow-up survey we used exactly the same survey instrument as for the 1996–2000 surveys. We follow Ravallion and Chen (2005) in using 1996 as the baseline. There are serious comparability problems between the 1995 survey and later surveys. As a baseline, the 1996 data are not free of contamination; 17% of the program's total disbursement on household projects had been made by the end of 1996. We check robustness to using 1995 as the baseline.

Results (English) 1:

Relative to other household surveys, unusual effort went into obtaining accurate estimates of consumption and income from the 1996-2000 and 2004-05 surveys. The household surveys from 1996 onwards were closely modeled on NBS's Rural Household Survey (RHS) (which is described in detail in Chen and Ravallion, 1996). For the 2004/05 follow-up survey we used exactly the same survey instrument as for the 1996-2000 surveys. We follow Ravallion and Chen (2005) in using 1996 as the baseline. There are serious problems, comparability between the 1995 survey and later surveys. As a baseline, the 1996 data are not free of contamination; 17% of the program's total disbursement on household projects had been made by the end of 1996. We check the robustness to using 1995 as the baseline.

Results (English) 2:

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