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A New Regional Price Index for Côte d'Ivoire using Data from the International Comparisons Project1

A New Regional Price Index for Côte d'Ivoire using Data from the International Comparisons Project1 AbstractThis paper develops a regional price index for Côte d'Ivoire building on the strengths of two independent data sources — the Living Standards Survey and the International Comparisons Project. The latter collected a wealth of information on prices across the country but did not collect any information on expenditure patterns of households or other socio-economic data. The former collected detailed information on household incomes, expenditure, employment, etc., but its coverage of prices left much to be desired. We bring these two sources together to produce a regional price index that we would argue to be superior to previous estimates based solely on the Living Standards Survey. The procedures we followed will be of interest to practitioners faced with similar data shortcomings, particularly when working on Africa. But we also show that this is no mere statistical exercise — using the new price index can have a significant effect on evaluations of poverty in Côte d‘Ivoire. We also use the new price information to construct disaggregated indices by commodity category and by poverty group. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Journal of African Economies Oxford University Press

A New Regional Price Index for Côte d'Ivoire using Data from the International Comparisons Project1

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Publisher
Oxford University Press
Copyright
© Centre for the Study of African Economies
ISSN
0963-8024
eISSN
1464-3723
DOI
10.1093/oxfordjournals.jae.a036795
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Abstract

AbstractThis paper develops a regional price index for Côte d'Ivoire building on the strengths of two independent data sources — the Living Standards Survey and the International Comparisons Project. The latter collected a wealth of information on prices across the country but did not collect any information on expenditure patterns of households or other socio-economic data. The former collected detailed information on household incomes, expenditure, employment, etc., but its coverage of prices left much to be desired. We bring these two sources together to produce a regional price index that we would argue to be superior to previous estimates based solely on the Living Standards Survey. The procedures we followed will be of interest to practitioners faced with similar data shortcomings, particularly when working on Africa. But we also show that this is no mere statistical exercise — using the new price index can have a significant effect on evaluations of poverty in Côte d‘Ivoire. We also use the new price information to construct disaggregated indices by commodity category and by poverty group.

Journal

Journal of African EconomiesOxford University Press

Published: Apr 1, 1994

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