Is inequality underestimated in Mozambique?: Accounting for underreported consumption
Household budget surveys in sub-Saharan Africa are designed to facilitate poverty measurement and may fail to fully capture consumption in wealthy households. As a result, inequality is likely underestimated. We address upper tier consumption underreporting by aligning consumption derived from Mozam...
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| author | Arndt, Channing Mahrt, Kristi |
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| description | Household budget surveys in sub-Saharan Africa are designed to facilitate poverty measurement and may fail to fully capture consumption in wealthy households. As a result, inequality is likely underestimated. We address upper tier consumption underreporting by aligning consumption derived from Mozambican household surveys with national accounts. Consumption in categories most consumed by wealthy households is more frequently underreported, and therefore scaling household level consumption by category upwardly adjusts upper tier consumption. Using scaled consumption, we find evidence that inequality in Mozambique is underestimated and that inequality began increasing in 2002 rather than 2008 as the official numbers suggest. |
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| spelling | CGSpace1479262025-12-08T10:29:22Z Is inequality underestimated in Mozambique?: Accounting for underreported consumption Arndt, Channing Mahrt, Kristi household surveys national accounting consumption household consumption equality Household budget surveys in sub-Saharan Africa are designed to facilitate poverty measurement and may fail to fully capture consumption in wealthy households. As a result, inequality is likely underestimated. We address upper tier consumption underreporting by aligning consumption derived from Mozambican household surveys with national accounts. Consumption in categories most consumed by wealthy households is more frequently underreported, and therefore scaling household level consumption by category upwardly adjusts upper tier consumption. Using scaled consumption, we find evidence that inequality in Mozambique is underestimated and that inequality began increasing in 2002 rather than 2008 as the official numbers suggest. 2017 2024-06-21T09:23:31Z 2024-06-21T09:23:31Z Working Paper https://hdl.handle.net/10568/147926 en United Nations University Arndt, Channing; and Mahrt, Kristi. 2017. Is inequality underestimated in Mozambique? Accounting for underreported consumption. WIDER Working Paper 2017/153. Helsinki, Finland: UNU-WIDER. https://doi.org/10.35188/UNU-WIDER/2017/379-0 |
| spellingShingle | household surveys national accounting consumption household consumption equality Arndt, Channing Mahrt, Kristi Is inequality underestimated in Mozambique?: Accounting for underreported consumption |
| title | Is inequality underestimated in Mozambique?: Accounting for underreported consumption |
| title_full | Is inequality underestimated in Mozambique?: Accounting for underreported consumption |
| title_fullStr | Is inequality underestimated in Mozambique?: Accounting for underreported consumption |
| title_full_unstemmed | Is inequality underestimated in Mozambique?: Accounting for underreported consumption |
| title_short | Is inequality underestimated in Mozambique?: Accounting for underreported consumption |
| title_sort | is inequality underestimated in mozambique accounting for underreported consumption |
| topic | household surveys national accounting consumption household consumption equality |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/147926 |
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