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Factors influencing the comparability of poverty estimates across household surveys

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The South African existing literature on poverty mainly adopted the money-metric approach to examine poverty levels and trends since the advent of democracy. In general, poverty increased until the end of the 1990s, before a downward trend took place. Despite the robust findings on the trends, poverty levels differed because of various reasons, ranging from the use of different poverty lines across the studies, to the adoption of different approaches to collect the income and expenditure information, and the presence of a high proportion of households reporting zero or unspecified income. This article aims to fill the existing research gap by explaining the possible factors accounting for the contrasting poverty levels across the eight commonly used South African censuses and household surveys between 1993 and 2012.

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  • Derek Yu, 2016. "Factors influencing the comparability of poverty estimates across household surveys," Development Southern Africa, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 33(2), pages 145-165, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:deveza:v:33:y:2016:i:2:p:145-165
    DOI: 10.1080/0376835X.2015.1120646
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    1. Tina Fransman & Derek Yu, 2018. "Multidimensional poverty in South Africa in 2001-2016," Working Papers 07/2018, Stellenbosch University, Department of Economics.
    2. Martin Gustafsson & Tsekere Maponya, 2020. "Are South Africa’s teachers among the best paid in the world? Using household assets as a proxy for monetary pay," Working Papers 08/2020, Stellenbosch University, Department of Economics.

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