Urban poverty mapping in Mozambique: is census or geo-spatial data better?

This paper estimates household per capita consumption at a very detailed level within all urban areas in Mozambique.

From:: Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office
Published: 16 December 2023

Country:: Mozambique
Document Type:: Working Paper
Theme:: Economic Growth
Authors:: Fisker P, Pave T., Urzainqui D

Abstract

This paper contributes to an expanding pool of knowledge by estimating household per capita consumption at a very detailed level within all urban areas in Mozambique. It builds a prediction model based on characteristics from the census, another model based on geo-spatial data and finally, a model that combines the two data sources, all with per capita consumption from the Inquèrito sobre Orçamento Familiar (Family Budget Survey) 2019/20.

This study is the first to generate high-resolution poverty maps of all urban areas in Mozambique, an output that may in itself be valuable for the Government of Mozambique and others.

This is an output from the Data and Evidence for Tackling Extreme Poverty (DEEP) Research Programme.

Citation

Fisker P., Pave T., Urzainqui D. Urban poverty mapping in Mozambique. DEEP Working paper 20, Data and Evidence to End Extreme Poverty Research Programme, Oxford, 2024