Can Poverty Mapping be used to predict change in per capita consumption in Tanzania over time?
In recent years a technique has been developed to obtain generate poverty estimates for small geographical areas where the available data is not representative. This estimation method, in popular terms called poverty mapping, combines data sources of the population in total, with data from surveys of household income and consumption. A population-wide census covers the entire population but only provides a limited amount of information, while data from household surveys provide detailed information, but only for of a limited sample