This paper describes the official methodology to estimate poverty based on household per capita consumption in Bangladesh using the Household Income and Expenditure Survey 2016/17. The analysis discusses changes in the survey that may affect the comparability of poverty estimates across time and a series of robustness checks to the estimation. It also includes a short description on how the official income aggregate is estimated.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.57138/VQMR9706

Date of Publication 

December 2020

Keywords

Poverty Line, Measurement, Survey, Methodology

JEL Classification Code

I30, I32

Recommended Citation

Ahmed, F., Genoni, M. E., Roy, D., & Latif, A. (2019). Official methodology used for poverty estimation based on the Bangladesh household income and expenditure survey 2016/17: A technical note. https://doi.org/10.57138/VQMR9706