Randall, Sara and Coast, Ernestina (2015) Poverty in African households: the limits of survey representations. Journal of Development Studies, 51 (2). pp. 162-177. ISSN 0022-0388
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Abstract
African poverty statistics depend on household-level measurements from survey data, making the definition of household of critical importance. Detailed case studies from Tanzania and Burkina Faso explore (1) understandings of household membership and ambiguities, and (2) how well survey definitions capture households as economic units, and the implications for household size and responses to and mitigation of poverty. We develop an analytic framework of ‘open’ and ‘closed’ households. ‘Open’ households cope with poverty using flexibility, movement and extra-household networks, but are poorly represented by survey data. Closed households are likely to be better described by survey data.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Official URL: | http://www.tandfonline.com/loi/fjds20 |
| Additional Information: | © 2014 The Authors |
| Library of Congress subject classification: | H Social Sciences > HC Economic History and Conditions |
| Sets: | Departments > Social Policy Research centres and groups > LSE Health |
| Funders: | Economic and Social Research Council, ESCR |
| Projects: | RES-175-25-0012 Survey Design and Measurement Initiative, ESRC-ANR research programme (RES 062-33-0007) |
| Date Deposited: | 19 Sep 2014 09:26 |
| URL: | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/59504/ |
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