2009 City/Municipal Poverty Incidence of the Philippines ... - NSCB

V. Lessons Learned• The SAE methodology employed in theProject made use of the Elbers, Lanjouw,and Lanjouw (ELL) methodology developedby the WB was modified to be used duringnon-censal years.• The modified ELL method was able toprovide municipality and city povertyincidence estimates for all municipalitiesand cities.• The estimates obtained can be used notonly by the local government but also bythe national government in pinpointing themunicipalities in the province that needsthe poverty alleviation program.20Dissemination Forum of the 2009 SAE of Poverty StatisticsZVJAlbacea and RAVirola/30 July 2012NATIONAL STATISTICAL COORDINATION BOARD