13.07.2015 Views

A Simple Poverty Scorecard for the Philippines

A Simple Poverty Scorecard for the Philippines

A Simple Poverty Scorecard for the Philippines

SHOW MORE
SHOW LESS

Create successful ePaper yourself

Turn your PDF publications into a flip-book with our unique Google optimized e-Paper software.

Figure 8 (All poverty lines): Differences, precision of differences, and samplesizeα <strong>for</strong> bootstrapped estimates of poverty rates <strong>for</strong> groups of householdsat a point in time, 2004 scorecard applied to validation sample<strong>Poverty</strong> lineInternationalNational USAID 2005 PPP1993 PPPNational Food 'Extreme' $1.25/day $2.50/day $3.75/day $5.00/day $4.32/dayEstimate minus true value2004 applied to 2004 validation +0.6 +0.5 –0.4 +0.7 +0.3 –0.1 –0.5 +0.42004 applied to 2002 APIS +0.0 –2.0 –0.5 –0.9 –1.7 –1.7 –1.6 –1.7Precision of difference2004 applied to 2004 validation 0.4 0.4 0.4 0.4 0.5 0.5 0.5 0.52004 applied to 2002 APIS 0.5 0.5 0.4 0.5 0.5 0.5 0.5 0.5α <strong>for</strong> sample size2004 applied to 2004 validation 0.55 0.57 0.63 0.57 0.61 0.72 0.78 0.622004 applied to 2002 APIS 0.73 0.87 0.89 0.98 0.69 0.66 0.69 0.67Precision is measured as 90-percent confidence intervals in units of +/– percentage points.Differences and precision estimated from 1,000 bootstraps of size n = 16,384.α is estimated from 1,000 bootstrap samples of n = 256, 512, 1,024, 2,048, 4,096, 8,192, and 16,384.67

Hooray! Your file is uploaded and ready to be published.

Saved successfully!

Ooh no, something went wrong!