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A Simple Poverty Scorecard for the Philippines

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concepts in <strong>the</strong> scorecard is essential. For <strong>the</strong> example of Nigeria, Onwujekwe, Hanson,and Fox-Rushby (2006) find distressingly low inter-rater and test-retest correlations <strong>for</strong>indicators as seemingly simple and obvious as whe<strong>the</strong>r <strong>the</strong> household owns anautomobile. In Mexico, however, Martinelli and Parker (2007) find that errors byinterviewers and lies by respondents have negligible effects on targeting accuracy. Fornow, it is unknown whe<strong>the</strong>r <strong>the</strong>se results are universal or country-specific.In terms of sampling design, an organization must make choices about:• Who will do <strong>the</strong> scoring• How scores will be recorded• What participants will be scored• How many participants will be scored• How frequently participants will be scored• Whe<strong>the</strong>r scoring will be applied at more than one point in time• Whe<strong>the</strong>r <strong>the</strong> same participants will be scored at more than one point in timeThe non-specialists who apply <strong>the</strong> scorecard with participants in <strong>the</strong> field can be:• Employees of <strong>the</strong> organization• Third-party contractorsResponses, scores, and poverty likelihoods can be recorded:• On paper in <strong>the</strong> field and <strong>the</strong>n filed at an office• On paper in <strong>the</strong> field and <strong>the</strong>n keyed into a database or spreadsheet at an office• On portable electronic devices in <strong>the</strong> field and downloaded to a databaseThe subjects to be scored can be:• All participants (or all new participants)• A representative sample of all participants (or of all new participants)• All participants (or all new participants) in a representative sample of branches• A representative sample of all participants (or of all new participants) in arepresentative sample of branches19

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