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Missing Millions and Measuring Development Progress
Resource type
Journal Article
Author/contributor
- Carr-Hill, Roy (Author)
Title
Missing Millions and Measuring Development Progress
Abstract
In developing countries, assessments of progress toward development goals are based increasingly on household surveys. These are inappropriate for obtaining information about the poorest. Typically, they omit by design: the homeless; those in institutions; and mobile, nomadic, or pastoralist populations. Moreover, in practice, household surveys typically under-represent: those in fragile, disjointed households; slum populations and areas posing security risks. Those six sub-groups constitute a large fraction of the “poorest of the poor”. We estimate that 250 million are missed worldwide from the sampling frames of such surveys and from many censuses and their omission may well lead to substantial biases.
Publication
World Development
Volume
46
Pages
30-44
Date
June 1, 2013
Journal Abbr
World Development
Language
en
ISSN
0305-750X
Accessed
10/12/2020, 18:08
Library Catalogue
ScienceDirect
Citation
Carr-Hill, R. (2013). Missing Millions and Measuring Development Progress. World Development, 46, 30–44. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2012.12.017
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