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Poverty and inequality in Vietnam: spatial patterns and geographic determinants by Minot, Nicholas, Baulch, Bob, Epprecht, Michael

“…The method was applied by combining information from the 1997-98 Vietnam Living Standards Survey and the 1999 Population and Housing Census... Mapping the density of poverty reveals that, although the poverty rates are highest in the remote upland areas, these areas are sparsely populated so most of the poor live in the Red River Delta and the Mekong River Delta... …”
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Generating disaggregated poverty maps: an application to Viet Nam by Minot, Nicholas

“…First, the relationship between rural poverty and 25 household indicators is estimated using household survey data. Then, census data on those same indicators are used to estimate the poverty rates for each of the 543 rural districts in Viet Nam. …”
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Isolation and agricultural productivity by Stifel, David, Minten, Bart

“…Based on comprehensive household survey data combined with a census of communes, we discover a strong poverty–isolation relationship. …”
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Common lands in India: Spatial distribution and overlay with socioeconomic and environmental indicators by ElDidi, Hagar, Khurana, Ritika, Zhang, Wei, Jadav, Maheshkumar Kalidas, Guha, Chiranjit, Priyadarshini, Pratiti, Guo, Zhe, Sandhu, Harpinder, Nagendra, Harini, Meinzen-Dick, Ruth S.

“…We provide a national assessment of the spatial extent and usage of common lands across districts, using publicly available spatial datasets and 2011 Census of India data and Household Census data. We further examine the spatial overlap between common lands and officially recognized protected areas to shine light on the possible locations where sustainable management or restoration of commons can potentially add value to conservation, in addition to benefiting local communities. …”
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Gender inequalities in the Colombian cattle sector: an econometric analysis by Pirela Rios, Ana Milagros, Díaz, Manuel Francisco, Enciso, Karen, Triana Ángel, Natalia, Burkart, Stefan

“…This document analyses gender inequalities in the Colombian cattle sector using census information on the cattle activity, disaggregated at the territorial level. …”
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Digitalization of extension data collection for climate risk management by the Ministry of Agriculture of Costa Rica by CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security

“…Since 2020 the Ministry runs all their agricultural census using ODK and FormShare effectively digitizing all their data collection.…”
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Reform of agricultural markets in India: A critical analysis by Narayanan, Sudha

“…Yet, as much as 54.6 per cent of India’s workforce, as per the Census of 2011, relied on this sector for employment and incomes. …”
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Argentina, Social Accounting Matrix 2000 by International Food Policy Research Institute

“…The Argentina SAM is based, mainly, on the disaggregation of the sectors of the 1997 Argentina Input-Output Matrix (MIPA 97) built by Argentina's Statistics and Census Institute (INDEC). This 124x124 matrix constitutes the best input-output matrix built in Argentina. …”
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The impact of India's rural employment guarantee on demand for agricultural technology by Bhargava, Anil K.

“…Using a regression discontinuity design and new Indian agricultural census data, this paper finds that NREGA causes a shift of roughly 20 percentage points away from labor-intensive technologies toward labor-saving ones, particularly for small farmers and low-powered technologies.…”
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The role of mineral fertilizers in transforming agriculture in Indonesia by Yasmin, Fitria

“…Approxi-mately 68 percent of rice farmers and 37 percent of maize farmers use chemical fertilizers, according to the 2009 Agriculture Census.…”
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Bangladesh Alive & Thrive Baseline Survey 2010: Shasthya Kormi (SK) by International Food Policy Research Institute

“…The census gathered data on household composition and child age, and was used to generate the sampling frame for the survey in the selected survey villages. …”
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Irrigated areas of India derived using MODIS 500 m time series for the years 2001-2003 by Dheeravath, Venkateswarlu, Thenkabail, Prasad S., Chandrakantha, G., Noojipady, P., Reddy, G.P.O., Biradar, Chandrashekhar M., Gumma, Murali K., Velpuri, Naga Manohar

“…The overarching goal of this research was to develop methods and protocols for mapping irrigated areas using a Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) 500 m time series, to generate irrigated area statistics, and to compare these with ground- and census-based statistics. The primary mega-file data-cube (MFDC), comparable to a hyper-spectral data cube, used in this study consisted of 952 bands of data in a single file that were derived from MODIS 500 m, 7-band reflectance data acquired every 8-days during 2001-2003. …”
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Harmonized Male/Female and Urban/Rural Subnational Expenditure, Poverty, and Inequality Indicators at 2011 PPP $1.90/day and $3.10/day for Africa South of the Sahara by International Food Policy Research Institute

“…Subnational poverty headcount ratios were derived from 66 nationally representative household surveys and population census information conducted in various years around 2008 for 26 countries. …”
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Forced gifts: The burden of being a friend by Bulte, Erwin, Wang, Ruixin, Zhang, Xiaobo

“…We develop a theoretical model to demonstrate how (unequal) income growth may trigger “gift competition” and drive up the financial burden associated with gift exchange. We use unique census-type panel data from rural China to test our model predictions and demonstrate that (1) the value of gifts responds to the average gift in the community, (2) the escalation of gift giving may have adverse welfare implications (especially for the poor), and (3) escalating gift expenses crowd out expenditures on other consumption items.…”
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Pakistan’s changing demography: Urbanization and peri-urban transformation over time by Kedir Jemal, Mekamu, Schmidt, Emily, Wagas, Ahmad

“…We use road and population data from corresponding census years (and government growth rates for more recent population estimates) to model reductions in remoteness to urban areas over time.…”
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Government expenditures, health outcomes and marginal productivity of agricultural inputs: The case of Tanzania by Allen, Summer, Badiane, Ousmane, Séne, Ligane, Ulimwengu, John M.

“…We link health sector expenditures in rural Tanzania to health outcomes and agricultural labour productivity using data from the 2008 Household Budget Survey (10,975 households) and the 2007/08 Agricultural Census (52,594 households) across 113 districts in Tanzania. …”
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Livestock development planning in Uganda: Identification of areas of opportunity and challenge by Benson, Todd, Mugarura, Samuel

“…In this paper we use data from the 2008 National Livestock Census to develop a better understanding of where in Uganda there might be potential for significant investment to intensify the production of livestock and, conversely, where there are important challenges, such as conflicts between human populations and livestock that need to be addressed. …”
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Positional spending and status seeking in rural China by Brown, Philip H., Bulte, Erwin, Zhang, Xiaobo

“…Focusing on a remote area in rural China, we use a panel census of households in 26 villages to show that socially observable spending has risen sharply in recent years. …”
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Spatial networks, labor supply, and income dynamics: Evidence from Indonesian villages by Yamauchi, Futoshi, Muto, Megumi, Chowdhury, Shyamal, Dewina, Reno, Sumaryanto, Sony

“…This paper uses household panel and village census data from Indonesia to examine the impact of spatial connectivity (road) development on household income growth and nonagricultural labor supply. …”
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A simple graphical method for the comparisons of mortality, recruitment and other count defined 'event-rates' by Sheil, Douglas

“…The estimation of mortality and recruitment rates from tree census data have been discussed elsewhere. However, rather than estimating absolute rates, researchers may often need to determine whether two rates are significantly different. …”
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