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Poverty and Inequality Mapping in Albania: Final Report Gianni Betti, 28 February 2003 Contents: 1. Introduction 2. The data sources 3. Linear regression models with variance components 4. Poverty and Inequality measures Annex 1: Poverty and Inequality Maps Annex 2: Comparison between census and LSMS sources and description of the variables Annex 3: The imputation procedure Bibliography Annex 4: Distributions of the variables (attached Excel file Distributions.xls) 1. Introduction The World Bank, in collaboration with the Department for International Development (DfID), is assisting the Government of Albania in the establishment of a permanent poverty monitoring and policy evaluation system in Albania. The current project aims at creating a reliable and sustainable system of household surveys for the timely production of reliable and relevant statistical information so to assist policy-makers in the design, implementation and evaluation of economic, social and environmental programs. As a part of the activities envisaged under the project, a poverty and inequality mapping analysis, foreseen as part of the project, is being carried out based on the methodology fully described in Elbers, Lanjouw and Lanjouw (2002). This methodology combines census and survey information to produce finely disaggregated maps which describe the spatial distribution of poverty and inequality in the country. 1

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Page 1: Poverty and Inequality Mapping in Albania

Poverty and Inequality Mapping in Albania:

Final Report

Gianni Betti, 28 February 2003

Contents:

1. Introduction

2. The data sources

3. Linear regression models with variance components

4. Poverty and Inequality measures

Annex 1: Poverty and Inequality Maps

Annex 2: Comparison between census and LSMS sources and description of the variables

Annex 3: The imputation procedure

Bibliography

Annex 4: Distributions of the variables (attached Excel file Distributions.xls)

1. Introduction

The World Bank, in collaboration with the Department for International Development (DfID), is

assisting the Government of Albania in the establishment of a permanent poverty monitoring and

policy evaluation system in Albania. The current project aims at creating a reliable and sustainable

system of household surveys for the timely production of reliable and relevant statistical information so

to assist policy-makers in the design, implementation and evaluation of economic, social and

environmental programs.

As a part of the activities envisaged under the project, a poverty and inequality mapping analysis,

foreseen as part of the project, is being carried out based on the methodology fully described in Elbers,

Lanjouw and Lanjouw (2002). This methodology combines census and survey information to produce

finely disaggregated maps which describe the spatial distribution of poverty and inequality in the

country.

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In fact, in order to produce poverty and inequality maps, large data sets are required which include

reasonable measures of income or consumption expenditure and which are representative or of

sufficient size at low levels of aggregation to yield statistically reliable estimates.

Household budget surveys or Living Standard Measurement surveys covering income and consumption

usually used to calculate distributional measures are rarely of such a sufficient size.

Whereas census or other large sample surveys sufficiently large enough to allow disaggregation have

little or no information regarding monetary variables.

The basic idea is to estimate a linear regression model with local variance components using the

information from the smaller and richer data sample, in the Albanian Living Standard Measurement

Study (LSMS) conducted in 2002, including some aggregate information from the Population and

Housing Census or other sources available for all the statistical units in the sample (i.e. from the

General Census of Agricultural Holdings). The vector of covariates utilised in the regression model

should be restricted to those variables that can also be linked to households in the census.

The estimated distribution of the dependent variable in the regression model (monetary variable) can

therefore be used to generate the distribution for any sub-population in the census conditional to the

sub-population’s observed characteristics. From the estimated distribution of the monetary variable in

the census data set or in any of its sub-populations, an estimate is to be made of a set of poverty

measures based on the Foster-Green-Thorbecke indexes (for α=0,1,2), the Sen index and an absolute

poverty line calculated using the information contained in the rich sample survey, as well as a set of

inequality measures based on the Gini coefficient, the Gini coefficient of the poor and two general

entropy (GE) measures, with parameter c=0,1. Moreover, bootstrapping standard errors of the welfare

estimates will be computed so as to assess the precision of the estimates.

This report is made up of four sections and four annexes. After this introduction, section two is devoted

to the comparison and the harmonisation of the data sources, giving special attention to the Census and

LSMS data sets. In section three the estimated linear regression models with variance components are

reported and there is a full description of how the Montecarlo simulation has been considered in order

to prepare the statistical information for calculating bootstrapping standard errors of poverty and

inequality measures. Section four reports the above described indices calculated for the whole of

Albania and disaggregated at six levels:

a) The four strata used in sampling the LSMS;

b) The six strata for which we have estimated the linear regression models;

c) The 12 Prefectures;

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d) The 36 Districts;

e) The 384 Communes;

f) The 11 Mini-municipalities which the city of Tirana is divided into.

Annex one reports poverty and inequality maps for Prefectures, Districts, Communes and

Municipalities. Annex two fully describes the comparison made between the various data sources and

the list of common variables; annex three discusses how we have treated missing information in the

LSMS data set, while annex four, consisting of the attached Excel file, reports the distributions of the

whole set of variables used in this work.

2. The sources

The Republic of Albania is geographically divided into 12 Prefectures. These are divided into Districts

which, in turn, are divided into Municipalities and Communes. The Communes contain all the rural

villages and the very small cities. The Capital of Albania, Tirana, is also divided into 11 Mini-

municipalities.

The three main sources of statistical information available in Albania are:

The Population and Housing Census (PHC) – 2001.

The Living Standard Measurement Study (LSMS) – 2002.

The General Census of Agricultural Holdings – 1998 and other sources.

2.1 The Population and Housing Census1

The census was conducted in April 2001, and the moment as reference was considered midnight of 31

March 2001. The 2001 census introduced some essentially new concepts in data collection methods as

well as in definitions, mainly the concept of an open population was introduced in order to asses the

consequences of emigration and internal migration.

For the April 2001 General Census of Population and for Housing census purposes, the cities and the

villages have been divided into 9,834 Enumeration Areas (EAs) which were established throughout the

country and generally involved about 80-120 dwellings. The fieldwork of the census was based on a

four-part questionnaire with questions at four different levels:

a) Building questionnaire: to be completed only for the first or only dwelling in the building.

1 INSTAT (2002), The Population of Albania in 2001.

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b) Dwelling questionnaire: to be completed for all the inhabited dwellings in the building.

c) Household questionnaire: to be completed for all the households (if more than one) in the

dwelling.

d) Individual questionnaire: to be completed for all the members of the household who are present,

or absent for less than 1 year (to be defined in the roster).

At the end of march 2001 in Albania there were 726,895 households with 3,069,275 persons

(1,347,281 in the labour force) living in 512,387 buildings.

2.2 The Living Standard Measurement Study (LSMS) – 20022.

The 2002 LSMS was carried out between April and June, with some field activities extending into

August and September. The survey work was undertaken by the Living Standards unit of INSTAT

(Albanian National Statistics Office), with the technical assistance of the World Bank

The Population and Housing Census (PHC) performed in mid-2001, provided the country with a much

needed updated sampling frame which is one of the building blocks for the household survey structure.

In fact the 9,834 Enumeration Areas formed the basis for the LSMS sampling frame.

The final sample design for the 2002 LSMS included 450 PSUs and 8 households in each PSU, for a

total of 3600 households. Four reserve units were selected in each sample PSU to act as replacement

unit in non-response cases. In a few cases in which the rate of migration was particularly high and more

than four of the originally selected households could not be found for the interview, additional

households for the same PSU were randomly selected.

The sampling frame was divided into four regions (strata), Coastal Area, Central Area, Mountain Area,

and Tirana (urban and other urban). These four strata represent the domains of estimation. They were

further divided into major cities, other urban, and other rural (Table 1). The EAs were allocated

proportionately to the number of housing units in these areas.

2 The World Bank (2002), Basic Information Document, Living Standard Measurement Study, Albania, Development Research Group.

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Table 1: Domains of Estimation (Regions) Districts and Major Cities in the Domains of Estimation

Region 1 Coastal area

Region 2 Central Area

Region 3 Mountain Area

Tirana

Districts ( Other Urban )

Lezhë Kurbin Kavajë Mallakaster Lushnje Delvine Sarande

Kuçove Skrapar Krujë Peqin Gjirokastër Permet Tepelenë Tirana (rural)

Devoll Kolonjë Pogradec Mirdite Puke Malesi e Madhe Mat

Kukes Has Tropoje Bulqize Diber Gramsh Librazhd

Tirana urban Tirana other urban

Major Cities

Durres Fier Vlore

Shkoder Elbasan

Berat Korçë

Four survey instruments were used to collect information for the 2002 Albania LSMS:

a) Household questionnaire

b) Diary for recording household food consumption

c) Community questionnaire

d) Price questionnaire.

2.3 The General Census of Agricultural Holdings3 and other sources

Another important source of information in Albania is the General Census of Agricultural Holdings;

according to the approved calendar, the household interviewing process started on the first of June

1998. The census was accomplished by means of a direct interview with the manager (owner) of

agricultural households. The census was extended to 466.809 agricultural holdings (private and public),

2968 villages and cities, 368 communes and municipalities, 36 districts and 12 prefectures. Some

aggregate statistics (mainly at commune/municipality level) are to be used in the estimation of the

consumption model in section 4, in order to explain the variability due to local differences.

A list of potential interesting variables is reported as follows:

a) Number of holdings (Physical person and Public)

b) Total area (ha) (Physical person e Public)

c) UAA (ha) (Physical person and Public)

d) Total cultivated land by the way of tilling (by hand, with equidaes, mechanically)

e) Agriculture holdings selling animal products by classes of UAA

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Moreover, further information such as number of postal offices, banks or supermarkets (per

communes) should be taken into account. The main aim of this section consists in comparing the

common information collected by the census and the sample survey.

The two sources of data have been fully analysed in order to identify the common concept and to

construct the common variable to be compared.

The original Census and LSMS variables have been transformed in order to get comparable variables.

Table A2 in Annex 2 reports the list of those common variables divided into three categories:

a) Household dwelling conditions and presence of durable goods (23 variables).

b) Household head characteristics (8 variables)

c) Household socio-demographic characteristics (7 variables)

Since some variables collected in the LSMS survey presented some missing values it was decided to

impute them in order to avoid the loss of statistical units (and therefore degrees of freedom) in the

estimation of the linear regression model with variance components (see section 4). The imputation

procedure was based on the “sequential regression multivariate imputation” (SRMI) approach adopted

by the imputation software (IVE-ware), and is fully described in Annex 3.

The variables which underwent the imputation procedure were:

a) Type of building

b) Inhabited dwelling surface

c) Highest level of education achieved by any member of the household.

Each of the 38 variable distributions from the Census were compared with the corresponding

distribution from the LSMS, with the weighted distribution from the LSMS and, for the above three

variables, with the imputed LSMS distribution. A chi-square test was used for the comparisons. The

distributions are reported in the attached excel file (Distributions.xls).

The first decision to be taken lies in whether or not to consider the weights in the estimation of the

linear regression model in the LSMS data set.

Comparing the census distributions with the corresponding two in the LSMS (not weighted and

weighted), in 21 cases the original distribution fits better than the weighted distribution. Moreover in

the 17 cases where the weighted distribution fits better, for five variables the difference between the

two distributions is so small that they can be considered the same, whereas for the other two cases, the

distributions are very different from the census one and therefore they cannot be included in the

3 INSTAT (2000), General Census of Agricultural Holdings 1998.

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regression model. Taking into account all the above considerations it seems necessary NOT to consider

the weights in the estimation of the linear regression models (see section 4).

The second decision to be taken lies in the choice of the potential variables to be included in the

regression model as explanatory variables. According to the chi-square test, only 9 out of 38 LSMS

distributions fit the census counterpart very well. This leads to a trade-off between the use of many

explanatory variables (not highly comparable with those in the census) and the use of few explanatory

variables (loosing part of the explanation of the variability in the dependent variable in the model). To

overcome this problem it was decided to reduce the number of categories of most of the variables in

order to obtain new distributions (mainly dummies) which were similar, as far as possible, to those in

the census. Anyway, some variables have been excluded because they are not comparable at all. The

list of the new variables to be used as potential regressors in the estimation of the model is reported in

Table A2 in Annex 2.

3 The estimation of stratum-specific linear regression models with variance

components for imputing expenditures

The basic idea can be explained in a simple way. Having data from a smaller and a richer data-sample

such as a sample survey and a census, a regression model of the target household-level variable, given

a set of covariates based on the smaller sample can be estimated. Restricting the set of covariates to

those that can also be linked to households in the larger sample, the estimated distribution can be used

to generate the distribution of the consumption expenditure (yh) for the population or sub-population

in the larger sample given the observed characteristics. Therefore the conditional distribution of a set of

welfare measures can now be generated and the relative point estimates and standard errors can be

calculated.

Practically the methodology follows two steps:

a) the survey data are used to estimate a prediction model for the consumption

b) simulation of the expenditure for each household of the census and poverty/inequality

measures are derived with their relative prediction error.

In the context of this work the smaller sample survey is the LSMS (2002) survey and the larger one is

the census (2001). The key assumption is that the model estimated from the survey data apply to

census observation, of course the assumption is most reasonable if the survey and census year is the

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same, unfortunately it is not our case, so when interpreting results we need to consider that the poverty

estimates obtained refer to the census year.

3.1 A prediction model for consumption

This step consists in developing an accurate empirical model of a logarithmic transformation of the

household per-capita total consumption expenditure (rent and health expenditure excluded).

Geographical differences in the level of prices are taken into account (LSMS variable rpcons3).

In the model the covariates are variables defined in the exact same way as in the smaller sample data

(LSMS) and in the census. Denoting by chyln the logarithm consumption expenditure of household h

in cluster c, a linear approximation to the conditional distribution o is consideredf : chyln

[ ] chTchch

Tchchch uxxyEy +== β|lnln [1] u+

Previous experience with survey analysis4 suggests that a model to be specified with a complex error

structure, in order to allow for a within-cluster correlation in the disturbances and allow for

heteroschedasticity. The disturbance term is specified as follows:

chcchu εη += [2]

where η and ε are independent of each other and not correlated to the matrix of explanatory variables.

Since residual location effects can highly reduce the precision of welfare measure estimates, it is

important to introduce some explanatory variables in the set of covariates which explain the variation

in consumption expenditure due to location. For this reason we propose introducing into the model

covariates the means of each covariate calculated over all the census households in the 450 census

enumeration areas (EA) which correspond to the 450 PSU selected in the LSMS sampling scheme.

has been decided to estim e following areas:

coastal area –rural- (stratum 1-rural),

The enumeration areas correspond to clusters in the LSMS data.

Some preliminary analyses on the Albanian LSMS suggest that the expenditure behaviour is locally

different so, in order to avoid forcing the parameter estimates to be the same for the whole country it

ate separate regression models for th

o

4 Elbers, Lanjouw and Lanjouw (2002).

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o coastal area –urban- (stratum 1-urban),

o central area –rural- (stratum 2-rural),

o central area –urban- (stratum 2-urban),

o mountain area (stratum 3),

o Tirana (stratum 4).

The models are estimated using the household survey data (LSMS), the results are in Table 2.

For each model the significance of the cluster effect has been tested by the Breusch and Pagan (1980)

Lagrange multiplier test for random effects, a test that Var(ηc) = 0; such a hypothesis has been rejected

at 5% level. Then we have tested the hypothesis that the random effects ηc and the regressors xch are

correlated by means of the Hausman's (1978) specification test. The test returns a significant result,

therefore the GLS estimator (random-effects estimator) is efficient.

The estimated share of the location component with respect to the total residual variance is represented

by Rho= 2

2

uσση . The rho values falls from about 2.9% to 30.8%, the central urban area and Tirana show

the lower effect of the local component, 6.2% and 2.9% respectively while the other areas show a very

relevant local component effect from 19% of the coastal urban area to 30% of the central one. The idea

of estimating different models for each stratum or sub-stratum seems to be proper either in terms of

local effect of in terms of covariates. In fact different subset of covariates are significant for each

model. The parameters which are significant for each stratum/sub-stratum are related to the level of

education and the possession of a car. The other significant parameters in almost all the strata/sub-

strata are the household size, the possession of durable goods (TV, refrigerator, heater, washing

machine), the variable indicating the number of rooms per person and the number of non working

people in the household. Considering the EA mean variables it can be observed that the variables

relating to the level of education are significant in three of the six strata (coastal and central urban area

and mountains) while the variable indicating migration after 1990 (instead of before 1990) is

significant for the coastal urban area, the central rural area and the mountain stratum.

It may be considered th t, the results from this first step consist of a set of estimated parameters for the

regression coe

a

fficient , the associated variance covariance matrix and parameters of the disturbance

istributions.

β

d

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3.2 Simulation on expenditure, poverty/inequality indicators and relative standard error

The parameter estimates obtained from the previous step are applied to the c nsus data so as to

simulate th

e

e expenditure for each household in the census. The simulated values are based on both the

predicted logarithm of expenditure β~'chx , and on the disturbance terms cη~ and chε~ using bootstrapped

ethods: m

( )chcTchch xy εηβ ~~~expˆln ++= [3]

For each household, the two disturbance terms are drawn from distributions described by the parameter

estimates in the first step. The beta coefficients, are drawn from a multivariate normal distribution with

mean β and variance covariance matrix equal to the one associated to β . For each household the

disturbance terms are drawn from distributions described by parameters estimated in the previous step.

Some diagnostic procedures have been used in order to verify the normality of the disturbance terms.

iture. For each of the simulated

onsumption expenditure distributions a set of poverty and inequality measures has been calculated as

as their mean and standard deviation over all the 100 simulations.

The full set of simulated chy is used to calculate the expected value of each of the poverty measure

considered .

The simulation step has been repeated 100 times, drawing a new set of beta coefficients, the related

disturbance terms and finally the simulated consumption expend

c

h

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Table 2: Regression results by Strata: GLS estimates and standard errors (in parentheses)

Coastal area (rural)

Coastal area

(urban)

Central area

(rural)

Central area

(urban)

Mountain area

Tirana

Observations 520 480 520 479 1000 600 R-squared within 0.5578 0.5550 0.5746 0.5351 0.5696 0.5791 R-squared between 0.6241 0.6834 0.5685 0.6431 0.6520 0.8015 R-squared overall 0.5779 0.5965 0.5716 0.5556 0.5991 0.6365 Sigma uc 0.1451 0.1502 0.1881 0.0818 0.1565 0.0573 Sigma εci 0.2991 0.3090 0.2816 0.3183 0.2965 0.3330 Rho 0.1905 0.1912 0.3085 0.0619 0.2179 0.0287 One dwelling house -0.0864***

(0.0316) House construction 1945 - 1960

-0.1406*** (0.0465)

House construction 1961 - 1980

0.2318** (1.1323)

House construction since 1991

0.1412*** (0.0416)

-0.0747** (0.0304)

House inhabited surface less than 40m2

-0.0861* (0.0480)

-0.1027*** (0.0369)

-0.1614*** (0.0608)

House inhabited surface 40m2-69m2

-0.0857*** (0.0329)

-0.0789*** (0.0240)

Wc inside 0.1141*** (0.0340)

0.1052** (0.0483)

Water inside 0.0798** (0.0349)

TV 0.2225*** (0.0664)

0.1455** (0.0604)

0.1966* (0.1044)

0.1155*** (0.0414)

Parabolic 0.0716** (0.0362)

0.1107*** (0.0268)

0.1264*** (0.0490)

Refrigerator 0.2297*** (0.0419)

0.1898*** (0.0601)

0.1184*** (0.0352)

0.1138*** (0.0279)

Heater 0.0873** (0.0356)

0.1396*** (0.0321)

0.0849*** (0.0289)

0.1154** (0.0496)

Air conditioning 0.2555** (0.1231)

0.2182*** (0.4334)

Computer 0.1777* (0.0974)

0.2446*** (0.0494)

Car 0.1848*** (0.0473)

0.3569*** (0.0428)

0.3710*** (0.0556)

0.3222*** (0.0481)

0.3371*** (0.0510)

0.3495*** (0.0425)

Washing machine 0.1129*** (0.0356)

0.1214*** (0.1214)

0.1340*** (0.0353)

0.2262*** (0.0410)

Rooms per person 0.1345*** (0.0436)

0.1149*** (0.0365)

0.1688*** (0.0514)

0.1311*** (0.0412)

0.1479*** (0.0390)

Possession of agricultural land

0.1726*** (0.0417)

0.1546*** (0.0540)

Child 0-5 -0.0449*** (0.0127)

Household size -0.2848*** (0.0420)

-0.0710*** (0.0197)

-0.3979*** (0.0312)

-0.1649*** (0.0345)

-0.2165*** (0.0234)

-0.1379*** (0.0408)

Household size squared 0.0154*** (0.039)

0.0278*** (0.0029)

0.0139*** (0.0039)

0.0081*** (0.0018)

0.0083** (0.0039)

Highest education low

-0.2655*** (0.0568)

-0.1728*** (0.0527)

-0.2268*** (0.0683)

-0.2446*** (0.0509)

-0.2510*** (0.0380)

-0.2252*** (0.0461)

Highest education medium -0.2126*** (0.0562)

-0.0992** (0.0437)

-0.1705** (0.0682)

-0.1351*** (0.0444)

-0.1536*** (0.0347)

-0.1116*** (0.0332)

Migration since 1990 0.0994* (0.0586)

-0.0655** (0.0289)

# non working people -0.0930*** -0.0572*** -0.1225*** -0.1047***

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(0.0186) (0.0142) (0.0206) (0.0200) Spouse age

0.0049*** (0.0022)

0.0058** (0.0023)

Spouse age squared

-0.00007*** (0.00003)

-0.0001*** (0.00003)

To be continued… Enumeration Area means variable

Rooms business 1.3422**

(0.6538) Brick or stone 0.3302***

(0.0719)

Plastered 0.1165** (0.0513)

House construction 1961 - 1980

0.1535** (0.0671)

Separate kitchen -0.1384*** (0.0510)

Wc inside -0.1909* (0.1105)

-0.2114*** (0.0669)

Car 0.7365* (0.4173)

Computer 5.5708* (2.9687)

Household size -1.8993*** (0.5008)

Household size squared 0.2212*** (0.0558)

Spouse work -0.2463*** (0.0958)

Highest education low -0.9050*** (0.2651)

-0.4045** (0.1933)

-0.8820*** (0.2355)

Highest education medium -0.9838*** (0.3355)

-0.8266*** (0.2612)

-1.2437*** (0.3305)

Migration before 1990 -0.5321** (0.2200)

-0.5363*** (0.1757)

Migration since 1990 -0.3258* (0.1688)

0.2659** (0.1312)

-0.5897** (0.2468)

Constant 13.2319***

(1.1177) 10.0938***

(0.2637) 9.9999*** (0.1176)

10.0881*** (0.2642)

10.3502*** (0.2867)

9.5694*** (0.1173)

* denotes significance at the 10%, **at the 5% level, and ***at the 1% level.

4 Poverty and Inequality measures

The procedure for estimating the poverty and inequality measures has been applied for the whole of

Albania and disaggregated at six levels:

a) The four strata used in sampling the LSMS;

b) The six strata for which the linear regression models have been estimated;

c) The 12 Prefectures;

d) The 36 Districts;

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e) The 384 Communes;

f) The 11 Mini-municipalities in which the city of Tirana is divided.

For any given location, the means constitute the point estimates, while the standard deviations are the

bootstrapping standard errors of these estimates.

Table 3: Poverty and inequality indices (%)

Head count FGT(1) FGT(2) Gini Gini-poor Sen GE(0) GE(1) Con

ALBANIA 28,41 6,94 2,47 30,01 12,33 5,23 14,69 15,44 7686,77 1,07 0,36 0,16 0,42 0,21 0,33 0,43 0,66 119,42 STRATUM 1 26,18 6,48 2,35 31,82 12,59 4,80 16,64 17,79 8276,49 2,07 0,72 0,32 1,11 0,47 0,64 1,23 1,84 271,25 STRATUM 2 30,17 7,18 2,48 27,80 11,86 5,50 12,51 12,82 7190,29 1,89 0,67 0,29 0,49 0,41 0,62 0,45 0,47 157,56 STRATUM 3 37,65 9,98 3,76 28,31 13,31 8,28 13,05 13,30 6545,07 1,78 0,71 0,35 0,53 0,41 0,73 0,51 0,52 141,08 STRATUM 4 17,95 4,12 1,42 30,23 11,82 2,78 15,02 15,39 9250,01 1,33 0,45 0,21 0,63 0,66 0,36 0,67 0,70 200,93 Stratum 1 urban 14,45 3,45 1,26 29,82 12,66 2,28 14,88 14,68 10070,61 1,84 0,56 0,24 0,73 0,64 0,43 0,78 0,74 493,56 Stratum 1 rural 34,93 8,74 3,16 29,87 12,52 7,09 14,87 17,42 6939,00 3,38 1,19 0,53 1,68 0,57 1,19 1,90 3,67 295,67 Stratum 2 urban 19,38 4,16 1,35 27,10 10,91 2,84 11,98 12,11 8350,21 1,44 0,44 0,18 0,59 0,45 0,35 0,55 0,56 179,22 Stratum 2 rural 35,49 8,66 3,04 27,07 12,06 7,01 11,84 12,22 6619,19 2,67 0,97 0,43 0,56 0,48 0,96 0,51 0,54 210,00 Table 3 reports poverty and inequality measures and their bootstrapping errors for the whole of

Albania, and disaggregated by four strata and by rural/urban type for the Coastal and Central regions

(stratum 1 and 2). The disaggregation into four strata is very useful for comparing these results to those

obtained by LSMS and reported in Table 4.

According to both sources, stratum 4 (Region of Tirana) is better off in terms of per capita

consumption and percentage of individuals below the poverty line (head count), while in the Mountain

area there seems to be the highest proportion of poor individuals. However, the two sources show

slightly different figures for the Coastal and Central areas: per capita consumption estimated in the

LSMS is higher than that simulated in the census data set; this phenomenon is not evident in the

Mountain and in the City of Tirana. The main explanation for this is the fact that information in the two

data sets has been collected in two successive years, 2001 and 2002. In that period the two Coastal and

Central areas experienced a quick change in life-style and high increase in the purchase of durable

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goods. This phenomenon has already occurred in Tirana City, but it has not yet started in the Mountain

Region.

Since the linear regression model for estimating the per capita consumption in the census data set has

involved many durable goods as regressors, the per capita consumption is lower in the year 2001

(census) and the head count ratio is higher (since the poverty line is an absolute one).

The last panel in Table 3 shows the disaggregation of Central and Coastal strata also by rural/urban

areas; according to the four poverty indices considered (Head count, FGT(1), FGT(2), Sen) the

Mountain region is still the worse off, while in both rural areas in the Coastal and Central strata more

than one third of the population is poor. However the region of Tirana shows higher inequality in the

distribution of per capita consumption (according to the Gini coefficient index and the two General

Entropy indices used). Table 4: Poverty and inequality indices according to LSMS (%)

Head count FGT(1) FGT(2) Gini Theil Con

ALBANIA 24,58 5,47 1,82 29,8 15,0 7948 STRATUM 1 19,88 4,22 1,43 28,6 13,5 8556 STRATUM 2 24,88 5,43 1,70 28,2 13,5 7642 STRATUM 3 43,24 10,68 3,87 29,3 14,1 6280 STRATUM 4 17,35 3,69 1,27 31,4 16,6 9216

Table 5 reports the measures calculated at Prefecture level; in the Prefecture of Vlore there is the

highest per capita consumption and the lowest percentage of poor people (16,57%), whereas according

to the Gini coefficient consumption is very concentrated (33,61%). On the other hand, the Prefecture of

Diber seems to be the worse off with only 6211 lek per month of per capita consumption, and the

highest percentage of poor individuals (42,10%).

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Table 5: Poverty and inequality indices by PREFECTURE (%)

Prefecture Head count FGT(1) FGT(2) Gini Gini-poor Sen GE(0) GE(1) Con

1: BERAT 28,09 6,29 2,08 26,05 11,19 4,73 10,98 11,18 7138,83 1,84 0,58 0,24 0,38 0,34 0,52 0,33 0,34 158,44 2: DIBËR 42,10 11,60 4,49 28,53 13,75 10,02 13,23 13,53 6210,75 1,63 0,75 0,39 0,55 0,44 0,79 0,53 0,54 114,06 3: DURRËS 25,83 6,48 2,38 30,89 12,84 4,79 15,68 15,95 8209,08 1,88 0,67 0,31 0,74 0,47 0,61 0,76 0,82 283,21 4: ELBASAN 31,75 7,59 2,64 27,20 11,95 5,93 11,99 12,28 6949,84 1,46 0,50 0,22 0,39 0,27 0,48 0,35 0,38 115,48 5: FIER 29,14 7,04 2,48 29,47 12,12 5,36 14,09 14,57 7539,79 2,58 0,88 0,38 0,94 0,51 0,82 0,90 0,97 233,51 6: GJIROKASTËR 22,16 4,90 1,61 28,02 11,10 3,44 12,74 12,96 8155,75 1,59 0,51 0,21 0,53 0,43 0,42 0,50 0,52 188,80 7: KORÇË 27,53 6,41 2,18 27,95 11,62 4,77 12,66 12,93 7493,74 1,81 0,62 0,26 0,57 0,40 0,55 0,53 0,55 156,88 8: KUKËS 35,35 9,09 3,34 28,49 12,82 7,36 13,17 13,48 6788,45 2,34 0,88 0,40 0,56 0,47 0,88 0,53 0,56 195,94 9: LEZHË 36,39 9,76 3,72 30,97 13,49 8,00 15,74 17,01 6977,24 2,06 0,82 0,40 0,93 0,47 0,83 1,05 1,88 202,48 10: SHKODËR 33,54 8,49 3,07 28,83 12,59 6,73 13,47 13,77 7013,32 1,92 0,77 0,37 0,55 0,50 0,74 0,53 0,54 151,10 11: TIRANË 22,49 5,22 1,79 30,08 11,78 3,69 14,77 15,25 8474,74 1,49 0,47 0,20 0,48 0,37 0,40 0,49 0,54 176,01 12: VLORË 16,57 3,71 1,25 33,61 11,47 2,45 18,73 20,88 10249,16 1,56 0,45 0,18 2,04 0,39 0,34 2,51 4,39 503,47 Tables 6-8 report poverty and inequality measures disaggregated at District, Communes and Mini-

municipality (for the City of Tirana) level. The poverty and inequality Maps corresponding to Tables 5-

7 are in the following Annex 1.

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Table 6: Poverty and inequality indices by DISTRICT (%)

District Head count FGT(1) FGT(2) Gini Gini-poor Sen GE(0) GE(1) Con

1: BERAT 29,04 6,59 2,20 26,24 11,33 5,00 11,14 11,37 7076,05 1,87 0,61 0,26 0,43 0,37 0,56 0,37 0,39 153,52 2: BULCUIZË 56,15 17,56 7,44 27,21 15,44 17,07 12,07 12,19 5101,98 3,49 1,88 1,06 0,68 0,74 2,28 0,64 0,64 212,34 3: DELVINË 14,07 3,07 1,01 43,86 11,10 1,97 32,41 37,90 13867,19 2,41 0,65 0,26 6,15 0,77 0,48 9,68 12,92 2217,93 4: DEVOLL 29,45 6,84 2,31 27,23 11,48 5,19 11,97 12,23 7195,18 2,60 0,88 0,37 0,62 0,54 0,81 0,55 0,56 211,32 5: DIBËR 34,75 8,94 3,29 28,49 12,88 7,20 13,19 13,46 6835,17 2,17 0,83 0,39 0,61 0,46 0,83 0,58 0,61 185,10 6: DURRËS 23,66 6,07 2,29 31,35 13,26 4,41 16,28 16,34 8640,40 2,36 0,85 0,39 0,87 0,62 0,75 0,94 0,95 367,02 7: ELBASAN 29,32 6,83 2,32 27,26 11,63 5,19 12,04 12,34 7193,56 1,77 0,60 0,26 0,48 0,38 0,55 0,43 0,46 141,95 8: FIER 26,08 6,16 2,14 29,76 11,91 4,54 14,38 14,80 7950,24 2,31 0,76 0,32 0,99 0,48 0,67 0,96 1,02 250,51 9: GRAMSH 33,37 8,09 2,85 26,42 12,14 6,45 11,33 11,48 6702,69 2,31 0,80 0,36 0,69 0,52 0,80 0,60 0,61 174,13 10: GJIROKASTËR 19,34 4,24 1,39 28,69 11,04 2,88 13,41 13,58 8727,08 1,63 0,50 0,21 0,64 0,52 0,40 0,62 0,63 235,40 11: HAS 44,15 12,31 4,77 28,62 13,74 10,80 13,27 13,73 6080,12 3,23 1,37 0,69 0,77 0,70 1,51 0,74 0,80 234,04 12: KAVAJË 26,93 6,59 2,35 29,92 12,37 4,91 14,61 14,87 7896,19 2,45 0,82 0,36 0,97 0,51 0,74 0,95 0,98 269,72 13: KOLONJË 25,87 5,84 1,94 26,65 11,25 4,27 11,52 11,64 7473,21 2,25 0,74 0,31 0,63 0,59 0,64 0,56 0,56 206,36 14: KORÇË 24,92 5,66 1,90 28,11 11,39 4,10 12,82 13,09 7820,45 1,57 0,51 0,21 0,59 0,37 0,44 0,55 0,58 157,24 15: KRUJË 32,01 7,66 2,65 27,49 11,86 5,98 12,24 12,65 6975,91 2,21 0,79 0,35 0,49 0,49 0,76 0,46 0,52 188,69 16: KUÇOVË 24,95 5,42 1,76 25,76 10,90 3,94 10,75 10,90 7413,14 2,34 0,66 0,26 0,49 0,45 0,58 0,42 0,42 231,29 17: KUKËS 35,19 8,93 3,24 28,26 12,61 7,21 12,94 13,30 6781,61 2,74 0,99 0,45 0,61 0,50 1,00 0,57 0,60 233,81 18: KURBIN 35,15 9,51 3,68 28,92 13,78 7,76 13,74 13,80 6822,25 2,80 1,07 0,52 0,77 0,60 1,08 0,76 0,77 253,73 19: LEZHË 35,54 9,75 3,79 33,78 13,79 7,93 18,79 20,93 7453,34 2,92 1,20 0,60 1,71 0,70 1,21 2,10 3,74 321,63 20: LIBRAZHD 35,73 9,00 3,25 27,28 12,56 7,33 12,08 12,33 6605,86 2,56 0,90 0,40 0,61 0,46 0,92 0,55 0,60 206,39 21: LUSHNJË 32,73 8,10 2,89 29,11 12,33 6,40 13,73 14,29 7116,74 2,98 1,08 0,48 0,91 0,56 1,04 0,87 0,98 237,18 22: MALËSI E MADHE 35,48 8,85 3,16 27,95 12,31 7,16 12,62 13,03 6729,40

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3,10 1,12 0,50 0,62 0,58 1,11 0,58 0,62 247,74 23: MALLKASTËR 31,49 7,63 2,69 27,50 12,13 5,98 12,28 12,55 7013,71 3,43 1,14 0,48 0,96 0,59 1,08 0,85 0,91 272,26 24: MAT 42,52 11,14 4,09 27,33 12,77 9,61 12,03 12,43 6114,73 3,04 1,31 0,63 0,64 0,63 1,38 0,58 0,59 192,34

District Head count FGT(1) FGT(2) Gini Gini-poor Sen GE(0) GE(1) Con

25: MIRDITË 39,78 10,13 3,65 27,41 12,46 8,52 12,09 12,45 6334,79 2,67 1,09 0,51 0,64 0,57 1,12 0,59 0,59 184,64 26: PEQUIN 37,59 9,11 3,17 25,95 11,91 7,53 10,87 11,19 6336,37 2,98 1,08 0,47 0,59 0,51 1,09 0,51 0,53 201,47 27: PËRMET 23,79 5,32 1,76 26,89 11,17 3,80 11,75 11,86 7745,22 1,99 0,64 0,26 0,59 0,55 0,53 0,53 0,54 191,00 28: POGRADEC 32,29 7,84 2,75 27,75 12,07 6,15 12,46 12,75 6983,39 2,47 0,90 0,40 0,67 0,53 0,86 0,61 0,64 182,77 29: PUKË 47,82 13,38 5,14 28,67 13,50 12,05 13,21 13,88 5866,92 3,41 1,63 0,83 0,74 0,73 1,79 0,69 0,77 222,45 30: SARANDË 14,17 3,13 1,05 33,09 11,36 2,01 18,14 19,33 10853,06 1,50 0,44 0,18 2,24 0,61 0,32 2,59 3,63 659,96 31: SKAPRAR 27,78 6,04 1,94 25,39 10,80 4,52 10,40 10,59 7082,92 2,27 0,67 0,27 0,46 0,46 0,62 0,39 0,40 198,16 32: SHKODËR 30,50 7,51 2,67 28,62 12,32 5,78 13,30 13,54 7282,87 1,65 0,62 0,29 0,53 0,44 0,58 0,51 0,51 142,63 33: TEPELENË 25,62 5,69 1,87 26,75 11,09 4,16 11,58 11,74 7519,78 2,12 0,67 0,28 0,55 0,51 0,59 0,49 0,50 190,96 34: TIRANË 21,82 5,01 1,71 30,06 11,65 3,52 14,74 15,26 8561,76 1,67 0,53 0,22 0,55 0,44 0,44 0,56 0,61 197,29 35: TROPOJË 29,55 7,20 2,55 28,12 12,22 5,51 12,86 13,03 7302,37 2,50 0,86 0,38 0,72 0,55 0,80 0,67 0,70 240,94 36: VLORË 17,33 3,89 1,31 32,38 11,50 2,60 17,31 18,77 9840,06 1,67 0,48 0,19 1,41 0,40 0,37 1,65 2,93 422,78

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Table 8: Poverty and inequality indices by Mini-Municipality of Tirana City (%)

Mini municipality Head count FGT(1) FGT(2) Gini Gini-poor Sen GE(0) GE(1) Con

1 17,31 3,98 1,38 29,10 11,88 2,67 13,97 14,09 9144,96 1,31 0,44 0,21 0,58 0,74 0,35 0,61 0,60 200,88 2 16,23 3,69 1,26 30,84 11,68 2,43 15,65 15,96 9805,39 1,33 0,45 0,20 0,72 0,67 0,35 0,77 0,82 224,98 3 15,08 3,25 1,07 28,22 11,14 2,12 13,09 13,29 9311,47 1,24 0,37 0,16 0,60 0,63 0,28 0,59 0,61 217,67 4 20,63 4,72 1,62 27,88 11,72 3,29 12,77 12,86 8329,17 1,58 0,52 0,24 0,59 0,69 0,44 0,59 0,56 193,88 5 11,94 2,55 0,84 31,13 11,09 1,60 15,91 16,32 10853,22 1,04 0,30 0,14 0,76 0,77 0,22 0,79 0,89 265,61 6 24,19 5,60 1,93 27,57 11,76 4,06 12,44 12,68 7777,56 1,93 0,64 0,29 0,65 0,64 0,57 0,63 0,61 196,62 7 15,19 3,42 1,17 29,91 11,73 2,25 14,75 15,06 9717,14 1,30 0,42 0,20 0,66 0,79 0,33 0,69 0,73 224,60 8 16,22 3,63 1,23 29,46 11,56 2,41 14,28 14,51 9427,05 1,35 0,44 0,20 0,62 0,80 0,34 0,65 0,65 218,92 9 15,58 3,58 1,25 30,61 11,98 2,37 15,46 15,70 9856,68 1,26 0,42 0,20 0,69 0,79 0,33 0,74 0,77 227,08

10 9,13 1,75 0,53 29,33 9,87 1,05 14,05 14,45 11093,21 1,11 0,28 0,11 0,75 0,74 0,19 0,73 0,85 291,49

11 29,43 7,25 2,61 28,30 12,50 5,57 13,10 13,40 7304,17 2,28 0,87 0,42 0,72 0,77 0,82 0,73 0,71 185,96

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Table 7: Poverty and inequality indices by Communes.

Code Head count FGT(1) FGT(2) Gini Gini-poor Sen GE(0) GE(1) Con

1 0,20 0,04 0,01 0,26 0,11 0,03 0,11 0,11 8085,93 2 0,28 0,06 0,02 0,24 0,11 0,05 0,10 0,10 6874,80 3 0,44 0,11 0,04 0,24 0,12 0,10 0,10 0,10 5801,79 4 0,34 0,08 0,03 0,25 0,11 0,06 0,10 0,10 6456,59 5 0,33 0,08 0,03 0,25 0,11 0,06 0,10 0,10 6551,29 6 0,28 0,06 0,02 0,24 0,11 0,05 0,10 0,10 6953,27 7 0,37 0,08 0,03 0,24 0,11 0,07 0,09 0,10 6252,91 8 0,46 0,12 0,04 0,24 0,12 0,11 0,09 0,10 5605,69 9 0,38 0,09 0,03 0,24 0,11 0,07 0,09 0,10 6155,58

10 0,26 0,06 0,02 0,25 0,11 0,04 0,10 0,11 7226,95 11 0,31 0,07 0,02 0,26 0,11 0,05 0,11 0,11 6850,02 12 0,43 0,11 0,04 0,25 0,12 0,10 0,10 0,10 5826,61 13 0,45 0,13 0,05 0,26 0,14 0,11 0,11 0,11 5717,47 14 0,52 0,15 0,06 0,26 0,14 0,14 0,11 0,11 5342,43 15 0,66 0,22 0,09 0,26 0,16 0,23 0,11 0,11 4508,18 16 0,52 0,15 0,06 0,26 0,14 0,14 0,11 0,11 5338,24 17 0,62 0,21 0,09 0,27 0,16 0,21 0,12 0,12 4725,32 18 0,62 0,20 0,09 0,27 0,16 0,21 0,12 0,12 4726,64 19 0,59 0,20 0,09 0,29 0,16 0,20 0,14 0,14 4977,95 20 0,54 0,16 0,06 0,26 0,14 0,15 0,11 0,12 5252,99 21 0,17 0,04 0,01 0,36 0,11 0,03 0,22 0,28 10360,88 22 0,09 0,02 0,01 0,42 0,14 0,01 0,33 0,29 23561,25 23 0,00 0,00 0,00 0,36 0,32 0,00 0,22 0,21 34123,17 24 0,16 0,03 0,01 0,27 0,10 0,02 0,12 0,13 8909,13 25 0,13 0,02 0,01 0,26 0,10 0,02 0,11 0,11 9211,16 26 0,32 0,08 0,03 0,26 0,12 0,06 0,11 0,12 6862,91 27 0,35 0,08 0,03 0,26 0,11 0,07 0,11 0,11 6511,61 28 0,36 0,09 0,03 0,26 0,12 0,07 0,11 0,11 6517,60 29 0,30 0,07 0,02 0,26 0,11 0,05 0,11 0,12 7059,18 30 0,34 0,08 0,03 0,27 0,12 0,07 0,12 0,12 6700,08 31 0,46 0,12 0,05 0,27 0,13 0,11 0,12 0,12 5813,24 32 0,25 0,05 0,02 0,25 0,10 0,04 0,10 0,10 7301,18 33 0,48 0,14 0,05 0,27 0,14 0,13 0,12 0,12 5638,13 34 0,28 0,06 0,02 0,28 0,11 0,05 0,13 0,14 7533,39 35 0,31 0,07 0,02 0,26 0,11 0,06 0,11 0,12 6905,97 36 0,33 0,08 0,03 0,26 0,12 0,06 0,11 0,11 6740,70 37 0,47 0,13 0,05 0,27 0,14 0,12 0,12 0,12 5724,71 38 0,12 0,02 0,01 0,26 0,10 0,01 0,11 0,11 9446,17 39 0,41 0,11 0,04 0,28 0,13 0,09 0,12 0,13 6216,71 40 0,54 0,16 0,06 0,26 0,14 0,15 0,11 0,11 5228,58 41 0,35 0,09 0,03 0,26 0,12 0,07 0,11 0,12 6537,66 42 0,35 0,09 0,03 0,26 0,12 0,07 0,11 0,11 6551,20 43 0,44 0,12 0,05 0,29 0,13 0,11 0,13 0,14 6143,12 44 0,53 0,15 0,06 0,25 0,13 0,14 0,10 0,10 5270,85 45 0,17 0,04 0,02 0,31 0,14 0,03 0,16 0,16 9700,71 46 0,38 0,09 0,03 0,26 0,12 0,08 0,11 0,11 6278,01

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47 0,41 0,11 0,04 0,27 0,13 0,09 0,12 0,12 6169,68 48 0,38 0,10 0,04 0,29 0,13 0,08 0,14 0,14 6665,45 49 0,24 0,05 0,02 0,28 0,11 0,04 0,13 0,13 7917,37 50 0,35 0,09 0,03 0,28 0,13 0,07 0,13 0,13 6775,94

Code Head count FGT(1) FGT(2) Gini Gini-poor Sen GE(0) GE(1) Con

51 0,34 0,09 0,03 0,28 0,13 0,07 0,12 0,13 6771,01 52 0,10 0,02 0,01 0,28 0,10 0,01 0,13 0,13 10602,66 53 0,40 0,11 0,04 0,29 0,14 0,10 0,14 0,14 6387,09 54 0,12 0,02 0,01 0,27 0,09 0,01 0,12 0,12 9724,07 55 0,31 0,07 0,02 0,25 0,11 0,05 0,10 0,10 6741,96 56 0,31 0,07 0,02 0,26 0,11 0,05 0,11 0,11 6911,52 57 0,26 0,06 0,02 0,26 0,11 0,04 0,11 0,11 7310,15 58 0,19 0,04 0,01 0,27 0,11 0,03 0,12 0,12 8360,47 59 0,26 0,05 0,02 0,24 0,10 0,04 0,09 0,09 7125,28 60 0,37 0,09 0,03 0,26 0,12 0,07 0,11 0,11 6395,36 61 0,37 0,09 0,03 0,25 0,12 0,07 0,10 0,11 6345,37 62 0,47 0,12 0,05 0,26 0,13 0,11 0,11 0,11 5727,26 63 0,30 0,07 0,02 0,26 0,11 0,05 0,11 0,11 6880,82 64 0,48 0,13 0,05 0,26 0,13 0,12 0,11 0,11 5655,98 65 0,35 0,08 0,03 0,25 0,11 0,06 0,10 0,10 6448,47 66 0,33 0,07 0,02 0,24 0,11 0,06 0,10 0,10 6516,86 67 0,34 0,08 0,03 0,25 0,11 0,06 0,10 0,10 6540,90 68 0,50 0,13 0,05 0,25 0,13 0,12 0,10 0,11 5470,94 69 0,55 0,16 0,06 0,26 0,13 0,15 0,11 0,11 5231,86 70 0,37 0,09 0,03 0,24 0,12 0,07 0,10 0,10 6200,20 71 0,37 0,09 0,03 0,26 0,12 0,07 0,11 0,11 6384,36 72 0,23 0,04 0,01 0,23 0,09 0,03 0,09 0,09 7268,82 73 0,39 0,09 0,03 0,24 0,12 0,08 0,09 0,10 6111,65 74 0,30 0,06 0,02 0,25 0,11 0,05 0,10 0,10 6875,68 75 0,37 0,09 0,03 0,26 0,12 0,07 0,11 0,11 6383,90 76 0,42 0,10 0,04 0,24 0,12 0,09 0,09 0,10 5899,98 77 0,42 0,11 0,04 0,27 0,12 0,09 0,11 0,12 6138,21 78 0,34 0,08 0,03 0,25 0,12 0,06 0,10 0,10 6504,06 79 0,37 0,09 0,03 0,26 0,13 0,08 0,11 0,11 6349,38 80 0,09 0,02 0,01 0,28 0,10 0,01 0,13 0,13 11063,48 81 0,40 0,10 0,04 0,25 0,12 0,08 0,10 0,10 6068,46 82 0,39 0,09 0,03 0,23 0,11 0,08 0,08 0,08 5965,08 83 0,38 0,09 0,03 0,24 0,12 0,08 0,09 0,09 6106,91 84 0,40 0,10 0,03 0,24 0,12 0,08 0,10 0,10 5984,62 85 0,36 0,09 0,03 0,27 0,13 0,07 0,12 0,12 6519,97 86 0,32 0,07 0,02 0,26 0,11 0,06 0,11 0,11 6872,49 87 0,37 0,09 0,03 0,25 0,12 0,07 0,10 0,10 6290,61 88 0,20 0,04 0,01 0,26 0,11 0,03 0,11 0,12 8199,27 89 0,38 0,09 0,03 0,25 0,12 0,08 0,10 0,10 6224,17 90 0,29 0,07 0,02 0,26 0,11 0,05 0,11 0,11 7046,16 91 0,25 0,06 0,02 0,27 0,12 0,04 0,12 0,12 7664,64 92 0,43 0,11 0,04 0,25 0,13 0,10 0,10 0,10 5832,03 93 0,25 0,06 0,02 0,26 0,11 0,04 0,11 0,11 7418,71

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94 0,38 0,09 0,03 0,24 0,12 0,08 0,09 0,09 6121,87 95 0,18 0,04 0,01 0,25 0,10 0,03 0,10 0,10 8071,77 96 0,39 0,10 0,04 0,25 0,12 0,08 0,10 0,10 6118,26 97 0,51 0,14 0,05 0,24 0,13 0,13 0,09 0,09 5295,72 98 0,49 0,13 0,05 0,25 0,13 0,12 0,10 0,11 5505,41 99 0,33 0,08 0,03 0,26 0,12 0,06 0,11 0,11 6715,96 100 0,34 0,08 0,03 0,25 0,11 0,06 0,10 0,10 6604,49 101 0,41 0,10 0,04 0,23 0,12 0,09 0,09 0,09 5863,43

Code Head count FGT(1) FGT(2) Gini Gini-poor Sen GE(0) GE(1) Con

102 0,40 0,10 0,03 0,25 0,12 0,08 0,10 0,10 6127,99 103 0,40 0,10 0,03 0,24 0,12 0,08 0,09 0,09 5925,73 104 0,47 0,12 0,04 0,24 0,13 0,11 0,09 0,09 5518,34 105 0,13 0,02 0,01 0,27 0,09 0,02 0,12 0,12 9536,60 106 0,21 0,05 0,01 0,30 0,11 0,03 0,15 0,16 8825,42 107 0,29 0,07 0,02 0,27 0,12 0,05 0,12 0,12 7201,40 108 0,29 0,07 0,02 0,27 0,11 0,05 0,12 0,12 7218,00 109 0,10 0,02 0,01 0,27 0,10 0,01 0,12 0,12 10220,12 110 0,26 0,06 0,02 0,27 0,11 0,04 0,12 0,12 7569,07 111 0,16 0,03 0,01 0,28 0,10 0,02 0,12 0,13 8917,48 112 0,27 0,06 0,02 0,27 0,11 0,05 0,12 0,12 7391,35 113 0,17 0,03 0,01 0,27 0,11 0,02 0,11 0,11 8911,66 114 0,21 0,05 0,01 0,28 0,10 0,03 0,12 0,13 8254,42 115 0,17 0,03 0,01 0,28 0,10 0,02 0,13 0,13 8998,28 116 0,18 0,04 0,01 0,28 0,10 0,02 0,12 0,13 8841,98 117 0,23 0,05 0,02 0,28 0,11 0,04 0,13 0,13 8248,85 118 0,53 0,16 0,06 0,27 0,14 0,15 0,12 0,12 5395,02 119 0,41 0,11 0,04 0,27 0,13 0,09 0,12 0,12 6163,59 120 0,62 0,19 0,08 0,25 0,14 0,19 0,10 0,11 4810,19 121 0,37 0,10 0,04 0,30 0,13 0,08 0,14 0,15 6754,13 122 0,32 0,08 0,03 0,27 0,12 0,06 0,12 0,12 6937,30 123 0,41 0,11 0,04 0,27 0,13 0,09 0,11 0,12 6133,17 124 0,37 0,10 0,04 0,27 0,13 0,08 0,12 0,13 6481,59 125 0,12 0,03 0,01 0,28 0,12 0,02 0,13 0,13 10272,36 126 0,36 0,09 0,03 0,26 0,12 0,07 0,11 0,11 6450,64 127 0,36 0,09 0,03 0,27 0,12 0,07 0,11 0,12 6511,59 128 0,34 0,08 0,03 0,28 0,12 0,07 0,12 0,13 6832,74 129 0,28 0,07 0,03 0,30 0,13 0,05 0,15 0,15 7863,14 130 0,41 0,10 0,04 0,24 0,12 0,09 0,10 0,10 5967,25 131 0,29 0,07 0,02 0,26 0,11 0,05 0,11 0,11 7068,08 132 0,36 0,09 0,03 0,24 0,12 0,07 0,10 0,10 6334,85 133 0,46 0,12 0,04 0,26 0,12 0,11 0,11 0,12 5834,00 134 0,15 0,03 0,01 0,25 0,09 0,02 0,10 0,10 8593,88 135 0,16 0,03 0,01 0,25 0,10 0,02 0,10 0,10 8287,96 136 0,39 0,09 0,03 0,25 0,11 0,08 0,10 0,10 6179,30 137 0,29 0,07 0,02 0,26 0,11 0,05 0,11 0,12 7176,71 138 0,36 0,09 0,03 0,25 0,12 0,07 0,10 0,10 6395,11 139 0,34 0,08 0,03 0,26 0,11 0,06 0,11 0,11 6714,37 140 0,25 0,06 0,02 0,28 0,11 0,04 0,12 0,13 7772,09

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141 0,43 0,11 0,04 0,27 0,12 0,09 0,12 0,13 6038,14 142 0,14 0,03 0,01 0,27 0,11 0,02 0,12 0,12 9410,65 143 0,42 0,10 0,04 0,24 0,12 0,09 0,09 0,10 5889,57 144 0,27 0,06 0,02 0,26 0,11 0,05 0,11 0,11 7187,51 145 0,26 0,06 0,02 0,26 0,11 0,04 0,11 0,11 7463,65 146 0,29 0,06 0,02 0,25 0,11 0,05 0,10 0,11 7013,92 147 0,48 0,13 0,05 0,25 0,13 0,11 0,10 0,11 5603,59 148 0,35 0,08 0,03 0,26 0,12 0,07 0,11 0,12 6637,61 149 0,32 0,07 0,02 0,25 0,11 0,06 0,10 0,10 6630,17 150 0,32 0,07 0,02 0,26 0,11 0,06 0,11 0,11 6780,06 151 0,29 0,06 0,02 0,26 0,11 0,05 0,11 0,11 7155,95 152 0,32 0,07 0,02 0,25 0,11 0,06 0,10 0,10 6641,81

Code Head count FGT(1) FGT(2) Gini Gini-poor Sen GE(0) GE(1) Con

153 0,33 0,08 0,03 0,26 0,11 0,06 0,11 0,11 6728,36 154 0,41 0,10 0,04 0,25 0,12 0,09 0,10 0,11 6118,74 155 0,39 0,10 0,03 0,26 0,12 0,08 0,11 0,11 6236,05 156 0,28 0,06 0,02 0,27 0,11 0,05 0,12 0,12 7409,41 157 0,47 0,12 0,05 0,25 0,13 0,11 0,10 0,11 5661,09 158 0,28 0,07 0,02 0,27 0,11 0,05 0,12 0,12 7296,75 159 0,39 0,10 0,03 0,27 0,12 0,08 0,12 0,12 6337,35 160 0,24 0,05 0,02 0,26 0,11 0,04 0,11 0,12 7602,60 161 0,37 0,09 0,03 0,28 0,12 0,08 0,13 0,13 6595,91 162 0,34 0,08 0,03 0,25 0,11 0,06 0,10 0,10 6472,60 163 0,21 0,04 0,01 0,26 0,11 0,03 0,11 0,11 7821,30 164 0,26 0,06 0,02 0,25 0,11 0,04 0,10 0,11 7305,93 165 0,73 0,24 0,10 0,23 0,15 0,26 0,09 0,09 4163,28 166 0,31 0,07 0,03 0,27 0,12 0,06 0,12 0,12 6993,97 167 0,51 0,14 0,05 0,26 0,13 0,13 0,11 0,11 5455,02 168 0,40 0,10 0,04 0,27 0,12 0,09 0,12 0,13 6341,12 169 0,21 0,05 0,02 0,27 0,11 0,03 0,12 0,12 8162,23 170 0,49 0,14 0,05 0,28 0,14 0,13 0,12 0,13 5673,17 171 0,47 0,12 0,05 0,27 0,13 0,11 0,12 0,12 5834,99 172 0,29 0,07 0,02 0,27 0,11 0,05 0,12 0,12 7157,55 173 0,34 0,08 0,03 0,26 0,12 0,06 0,11 0,12 6698,37 174 0,35 0,09 0,03 0,28 0,12 0,07 0,13 0,13 6820,53 175 0,34 0,08 0,03 0,27 0,12 0,07 0,12 0,12 6782,36 176 0,45 0,12 0,04 0,24 0,12 0,11 0,10 0,10 5672,59 177 0,51 0,14 0,06 0,25 0,13 0,13 0,10 0,11 5383,04 178 0,39 0,10 0,04 0,26 0,12 0,08 0,11 0,11 6256,21 179 0,53 0,14 0,05 0,25 0,13 0,14 0,10 0,10 5297,24 180 0,42 0,11 0,04 0,28 0,13 0,10 0,13 0,13 6184,58 181 0,30 0,08 0,03 0,29 0,14 0,06 0,14 0,14 7381,31 182 0,36 0,10 0,04 0,28 0,14 0,08 0,13 0,13 6719,15 183 0,40 0,11 0,04 0,28 0,14 0,09 0,13 0,13 6362,81 184 0,44 0,12 0,05 0,28 0,14 0,11 0,13 0,13 5967,80 185 0,40 0,10 0,04 0,27 0,13 0,09 0,12 0,12 6304,75 186 0,43 0,12 0,04 0,27 0,13 0,10 0,12 0,13 6055,12 187 0,32 0,08 0,03 0,29 0,12 0,06 0,13 0,14 7183,24

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188 0,44 0,12 0,05 0,28 0,14 0,11 0,13 0,13 6053,71 189 0,15 0,04 0,01 0,31 0,14 0,03 0,16 0,16 10475,20 190 0,23 0,05 0,02 0,29 0,12 0,04 0,14 0,14 8251,68 191 0,49 0,14 0,06 0,29 0,14 0,13 0,13 0,14 5723,22 192 0,48 0,15 0,06 0,51 0,15 0,13 0,46 0,53 9935,73 193 0,47 0,13 0,05 0,27 0,14 0,12 0,12 0,12 5698,78 194 0,44 0,11 0,04 0,26 0,13 0,10 0,11 0,11 5868,17 195 0,13 0,03 0,01 0,27 0,10 0,02 0,12 0,12 9490,58 196 0,63 0,20 0,08 0,25 0,15 0,20 0,10 0,11 4690,44 197 0,47 0,13 0,05 0,26 0,13 0,11 0,11 0,11 5669,99 198 0,34 0,08 0,03 0,26 0,12 0,07 0,11 0,11 6564,53 199 0,29 0,06 0,02 0,25 0,11 0,05 0,10 0,10 6956,68 200 0,35 0,08 0,03 0,26 0,12 0,07 0,11 0,11 6547,13 201 0,33 0,08 0,03 0,26 0,12 0,06 0,11 0,11 6629,85 202 0,52 0,15 0,06 0,25 0,13 0,14 0,10 0,11 5346,01 203 0,36 0,09 0,03 0,26 0,12 0,07 0,11 0,11 6461,93

Code Head count FGT(1) FGT(2) Gini Gini-poor Sen GE(0) GE(1) Con

204 0,34 0,08 0,03 0,25 0,11 0,06 0,10 0,10 6556,77 205 0,45 0,11 0,04 0,24 0,12 0,10 0,09 0,10 5693,78 206 0,35 0,08 0,03 0,24 0,11 0,07 0,09 0,09 6276,69 207 0,43 0,11 0,04 0,24 0,12 0,09 0,09 0,09 5814,29 208 0,32 0,08 0,03 0,28 0,12 0,06 0,12 0,13 6932,02 209 0,40 0,10 0,04 0,25 0,13 0,09 0,10 0,10 6027,17 210 0,44 0,11 0,04 0,26 0,13 0,10 0,11 0,11 5891,10 211 0,37 0,09 0,03 0,25 0,12 0,07 0,10 0,10 6262,15 212 0,41 0,11 0,04 0,28 0,13 0,10 0,12 0,13 6209,45 213 0,40 0,10 0,04 0,26 0,12 0,09 0,11 0,11 6090,09 214 0,44 0,11 0,04 0,24 0,12 0,10 0,09 0,09 5740,00 215 0,38 0,09 0,03 0,24 0,12 0,07 0,09 0,09 6103,02 216 0,38 0,09 0,03 0,25 0,12 0,08 0,10 0,11 6282,79 217 0,41 0,10 0,04 0,25 0,12 0,09 0,10 0,10 6012,77 218 0,15 0,03 0,01 0,29 0,12 0,02 0,14 0,14 9651,85 219 0,40 0,10 0,04 0,26 0,13 0,09 0,11 0,11 6187,58 220 0,36 0,09 0,03 0,28 0,12 0,07 0,13 0,14 6711,65 221 0,34 0,08 0,03 0,28 0,12 0,07 0,13 0,13 6832,05 222 0,34 0,08 0,03 0,27 0,12 0,07 0,12 0,12 6754,68 223 0,46 0,13 0,05 0,28 0,13 0,12 0,13 0,13 5895,14 224 0,28 0,07 0,02 0,28 0,12 0,05 0,12 0,13 7302,58 225 0,26 0,06 0,02 0,28 0,11 0,04 0,12 0,13 7595,30 226 0,44 0,11 0,04 0,26 0,13 0,10 0,11 0,12 5959,72 227 0,44 0,11 0,04 0,26 0,12 0,10 0,11 0,11 5906,71 228 0,15 0,03 0,01 0,27 0,11 0,02 0,12 0,12 9090,51 229 0,31 0,07 0,02 0,27 0,12 0,06 0,12 0,12 7020,72 230 0,38 0,09 0,03 0,24 0,12 0,08 0,10 0,10 6212,81 231 0,41 0,11 0,04 0,25 0,13 0,09 0,10 0,10 5977,51 232 0,35 0,09 0,03 0,26 0,13 0,07 0,11 0,11 6569,87 233 0,45 0,11 0,04 0,23 0,12 0,10 0,09 0,09 5677,08 234 0,33 0,08 0,03 0,25 0,12 0,06 0,10 0,10 6521,36

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235 0,32 0,08 0,03 0,24 0,12 0,06 0,10 0,10 6592,75 236 0,53 0,15 0,05 0,25 0,13 0,14 0,10 0,11 5338,84 237 0,41 0,10 0,04 0,28 0,12 0,09 0,13 0,14 6334,82 238 0,58 0,17 0,07 0,26 0,14 0,17 0,11 0,12 5080,88 239 0,45 0,11 0,04 0,25 0,12 0,10 0,10 0,11 5821,36 240 0,38 0,10 0,03 0,28 0,12 0,08 0,12 0,13 6498,66 241 0,48 0,13 0,05 0,26 0,13 0,11 0,11 0,11 5688,16 242 0,47 0,12 0,05 0,26 0,13 0,11 0,11 0,11 5693,69 243 0,23 0,05 0,02 0,26 0,11 0,03 0,11 0,11 7678,75 244 0,54 0,15 0,06 0,25 0,13 0,14 0,10 0,11 5259,78 245 0,43 0,11 0,04 0,25 0,12 0,09 0,10 0,11 5919,39 246 0,44 0,12 0,04 0,27 0,13 0,10 0,12 0,12 5976,96 247 0,56 0,16 0,06 0,26 0,14 0,16 0,11 0,11 5189,86 248 0,52 0,14 0,05 0,26 0,13 0,13 0,11 0,12 5459,11 249 0,45 0,12 0,04 0,26 0,12 0,11 0,11 0,11 5861,94 250 0,41 0,10 0,04 0,26 0,12 0,09 0,11 0,12 6189,72 251 0,47 0,13 0,05 0,27 0,13 0,11 0,11 0,12 5776,00 252 0,29 0,07 0,02 0,27 0,12 0,05 0,12 0,12 7262,65 253 0,36 0,09 0,03 0,26 0,12 0,07 0,11 0,11 6510,43 254 0,53 0,14 0,05 0,24 0,13 0,13 0,09 0,10 5264,60

Code Head count FGT(1) FGT(2) Gini Gini-poor Sen GE(0) GE(1) Con

255 0,41 0,10 0,03 0,24 0,12 0,09 0,10 0,10 5958,55 256 0,41 0,10 0,04 0,25 0,12 0,09 0,10 0,10 5977,08 257 0,41 0,10 0,03 0,25 0,12 0,09 0,10 0,10 5981,74 258 0,27 0,06 0,02 0,26 0,11 0,05 0,11 0,12 7358,30 259 0,41 0,10 0,04 0,26 0,12 0,09 0,11 0,11 6100,42 260 0,39 0,09 0,03 0,26 0,12 0,08 0,11 0,11 6262,65 261 0,37 0,09 0,03 0,27 0,12 0,08 0,12 0,12 6593,30 262 0,21 0,05 0,02 0,27 0,11 0,03 0,12 0,12 8101,99 263 0,35 0,08 0,03 0,24 0,11 0,07 0,09 0,09 6287,96 264 0,21 0,04 0,01 0,25 0,10 0,03 0,11 0,11 7844,80 265 0,12 0,02 0,01 0,25 0,09 0,01 0,10 0,10 9225,05 266 0,26 0,05 0,02 0,25 0,11 0,04 0,10 0,10 7303,67 267 0,32 0,07 0,03 0,25 0,11 0,06 0,10 0,11 6744,07 268 0,39 0,10 0,03 0,25 0,12 0,08 0,10 0,11 6195,47 269 0,27 0,06 0,02 0,26 0,11 0,05 0,11 0,11 7260,48 270 0,33 0,08 0,03 0,26 0,11 0,06 0,11 0,11 6729,60 271 0,35 0,08 0,03 0,25 0,11 0,07 0,10 0,11 6512,91 272 0,47 0,13 0,05 0,26 0,13 0,11 0,11 0,11 5706,33 273 0,18 0,04 0,01 0,27 0,11 0,03 0,12 0,12 8505,24 274 0,51 0,14 0,05 0,25 0,13 0,13 0,10 0,10 5421,05 275 0,44 0,11 0,04 0,26 0,12 0,10 0,11 0,11 5897,20 276 0,35 0,08 0,03 0,26 0,12 0,07 0,11 0,11 6512,21 277 0,49 0,13 0,05 0,25 0,13 0,12 0,10 0,10 5447,20 278 0,52 0,14 0,05 0,27 0,13 0,13 0,11 0,12 5499,48 279 0,64 0,19 0,08 0,26 0,14 0,20 0,11 0,12 4793,78 280 0,45 0,12 0,04 0,25 0,13 0,10 0,11 0,11 5773,30 281 0,59 0,18 0,07 0,27 0,14 0,17 0,12 0,12 5028,69

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282 0,57 0,17 0,07 0,29 0,14 0,17 0,13 0,14 5310,01 283 0,20 0,04 0,01 0,27 0,11 0,03 0,12 0,12 8232,14 284 0,52 0,14 0,05 0,26 0,13 0,14 0,11 0,12 5445,16 285 0,44 0,11 0,04 0,26 0,12 0,10 0,11 0,12 5989,37 286 0,49 0,14 0,05 0,30 0,14 0,13 0,14 0,15 5911,87 287 0,48 0,13 0,05 0,28 0,13 0,12 0,12 0,14 5818,08 288 0,02 0,00 0,00 0,34 0,21 0,00 0,21 0,20 25573,74 289 0,18 0,04 0,01 0,26 0,11 0,03 0,11 0,11 8421,19 290 0,25 0,06 0,02 0,27 0,11 0,04 0,11 0,12 7486,14 291 0,10 0,03 0,01 0,31 0,13 0,02 0,17 0,16 12275,36 292 0,09 0,02 0,01 0,29 0,11 0,01 0,14 0,13 11571,71 293 0,16 0,04 0,01 0,29 0,13 0,03 0,14 0,14 9694,45 294 0,25 0,06 0,02 0,27 0,11 0,04 0,12 0,12 7622,93 295 0,17 0,04 0,01 0,30 0,10 0,02 0,15 0,15 9479,22 296 0,28 0,06 0,02 0,25 0,11 0,05 0,10 0,10 7006,36 297 0,25 0,05 0,02 0,25 0,10 0,04 0,10 0,11 7439,85 298 0,32 0,07 0,02 0,25 0,11 0,06 0,10 0,10 6688,91 299 0,19 0,04 0,01 0,25 0,10 0,03 0,10 0,10 7936,33 300 0,37 0,08 0,03 0,23 0,10 0,07 0,09 0,09 6156,64 301 0,45 0,11 0,04 0,22 0,11 0,10 0,08 0,08 5622,95 302 0,20 0,04 0,01 0,25 0,10 0,03 0,10 0,10 7711,88 303 0,43 0,10 0,04 0,24 0,11 0,09 0,09 0,09 5843,59 304 0,32 0,07 0,02 0,25 0,11 0,06 0,10 0,10 6646,86 305 0,33 0,07 0,02 0,24 0,11 0,06 0,10 0,10 6543,52

Code Head count FGT(1) FGT(2) Gini Gini-poor Sen GE(0) GE(1) Con

306 0,38 0,09 0,03 0,24 0,11 0,07 0,09 0,09 6114,84 307 0,38 0,10 0,03 0,27 0,12 0,08 0,12 0,12 6496,32 308 0,31 0,07 0,02 0,27 0,11 0,06 0,11 0,12 6924,93 309 0,30 0,07 0,02 0,28 0,11 0,05 0,13 0,13 7240,14 310 0,29 0,07 0,02 0,29 0,12 0,05 0,14 0,14 7488,39 311 0,44 0,11 0,04 0,26 0,13 0,10 0,11 0,11 5931,14 312 0,44 0,11 0,04 0,27 0,12 0,10 0,12 0,13 6040,29 313 0,38 0,10 0,03 0,27 0,12 0,08 0,12 0,12 6413,62 314 0,42 0,11 0,04 0,27 0,13 0,09 0,11 0,12 6108,89 315 0,61 0,19 0,08 0,28 0,14 0,19 0,13 0,14 5051,78 316 0,32 0,08 0,03 0,28 0,12 0,06 0,13 0,13 7007,30 317 0,67 0,21 0,09 0,28 0,14 0,22 0,13 0,15 4737,06 318 0,21 0,05 0,02 0,27 0,11 0,03 0,12 0,12 8199,50 319 0,45 0,12 0,04 0,27 0,12 0,10 0,12 0,13 6077,72 320 0,61 0,20 0,08 0,27 0,15 0,20 0,12 0,13 4923,35 321 0,32 0,08 0,03 0,29 0,12 0,06 0,14 0,14 7261,22 322 0,51 0,14 0,05 0,26 0,13 0,13 0,11 0,11 5477,34 323 0,30 0,07 0,02 0,28 0,11 0,05 0,13 0,13 7279,32 324 0,61 0,18 0,07 0,25 0,14 0,18 0,10 0,11 4918,02 325 0,46 0,12 0,04 0,24 0,12 0,10 0,10 0,10 5666,78 326 0,25 0,05 0,02 0,26 0,11 0,04 0,11 0,11 7443,10 327 0,33 0,08 0,03 0,26 0,11 0,06 0,11 0,11 6811,53 328 0,20 0,04 0,01 0,25 0,09 0,03 0,10 0,10 7945,35

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329 0,35 0,08 0,03 0,25 0,11 0,07 0,10 0,10 6501,40 330 0,36 0,09 0,03 0,26 0,12 0,07 0,11 0,11 6485,60 331 0,20 0,04 0,01 0,25 0,10 0,03 0,10 0,10 7860,00 332 0,25 0,05 0,02 0,26 0,10 0,04 0,11 0,11 7484,69 333 0,25 0,05 0,02 0,26 0,11 0,04 0,11 0,11 7487,84 334 0,14 0,03 0,01 0,26 0,10 0,02 0,11 0,11 8937,85 335 0,40 0,09 0,03 0,24 0,12 0,08 0,10 0,10 6050,11 336 0,27 0,06 0,02 0,27 0,11 0,04 0,12 0,12 7398,74 337 0,36 0,09 0,03 0,27 0,12 0,07 0,12 0,12 6582,56 338 0,33 0,08 0,03 0,28 0,11 0,06 0,13 0,13 6981,78 339 0,25 0,06 0,02 0,27 0,11 0,04 0,12 0,12 7639,38 340 0,24 0,05 0,02 0,27 0,11 0,04 0,12 0,12 7753,83 341 0,33 0,08 0,03 0,27 0,11 0,06 0,12 0,13 6878,89 342 0,22 0,05 0,02 0,26 0,10 0,03 0,11 0,12 7870,29 343 0,34 0,08 0,03 0,26 0,11 0,06 0,11 0,12 6620,75 344 0,36 0,09 0,03 0,26 0,12 0,07 0,11 0,11 6477,21 345 0,30 0,07 0,02 0,28 0,12 0,06 0,13 0,13 7236,29 346 0,29 0,07 0,02 0,27 0,11 0,05 0,12 0,12 7177,72 347 0,42 0,10 0,03 0,25 0,11 0,09 0,10 0,11 5926,88 348 0,18 0,04 0,01 0,30 0,12 0,03 0,15 0,15 9273,48 349 0,35 0,08 0,03 0,26 0,11 0,07 0,11 0,12 6608,86 350 0,26 0,06 0,02 0,27 0,11 0,04 0,12 0,12 7486,25 351 0,43 0,11 0,04 0,26 0,12 0,10 0,11 0,11 5952,05 352 0,42 0,10 0,04 0,26 0,12 0,09 0,11 0,11 6089,77 353 0,42 0,11 0,04 0,27 0,13 0,10 0,12 0,12 6038,00 354 0,20 0,04 0,01 0,27 0,11 0,03 0,12 0,11 8293,84 355 0,27 0,07 0,02 0,28 0,12 0,05 0,13 0,13 7470,57 356 0,33 0,08 0,03 0,29 0,12 0,07 0,13 0,14 7035,47

Code Head count FGT(1) FGT(2) Gini Gini-poor Sen GE(0) GE(1) Con

357 0,38 0,10 0,03 0,27 0,13 0,08 0,12 0,12 6406,11 358 0,49 0,14 0,05 0,27 0,13 0,12 0,12 0,12 5678,21 359 0,27 0,06 0,02 0,28 0,12 0,05 0,13 0,13 7574,98 360 0,31 0,07 0,03 0,26 0,12 0,06 0,11 0,11 6930,77 361 0,29 0,07 0,02 0,28 0,12 0,05 0,13 0,13 7400,09 362 0,34 0,08 0,03 0,25 0,11 0,06 0,10 0,10 6523,93 363 0,05 0,01 0,01 0,43 0,14 0,01 0,32 0,32 23215,99 364 0,27 0,06 0,02 0,27 0,11 0,05 0,12 0,12 7436,69 365 0,24 0,05 0,02 0,27 0,11 0,04 0,12 0,12 7701,06 366 0,18 0,04 0,01 0,28 0,11 0,03 0,13 0,13 8645,20 367 0,25 0,05 0,02 0,34 0,11 0,04 0,19 0,23 8630,55 368 0,22 0,05 0,02 0,29 0,13 0,04 0,14 0,13 8367,59 369 0,27 0,06 0,02 0,25 0,11 0,05 0,10 0,10 7091,10 370 0,38 0,10 0,04 0,27 0,13 0,08 0,12 0,12 6362,93 371 0,26 0,05 0,02 0,25 0,11 0,04 0,10 0,10 7219,43 372 0,10 0,02 0,01 0,29 0,11 0,01 0,14 0,14 11226,31 373 0,29 0,07 0,02 0,26 0,11 0,05 0,11 0,11 7019,70 374 0,30 0,07 0,02 0,25 0,11 0,05 0,10 0,10 6775,92

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Annex 1: Poverty and inequality maps

Per Capita Consumption by administrative disaggregation.

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Annex 2: Comparison between Census and LSMS sources

The main aim of this annex consists in comparing the common information collected by the census and

the sample survey. The two sources of data have been fully analysed in order to identify the common

concept and to construct the common variable to be compared. The original Census and LSMS

variables have been transformed in order to get comparable variables. The Table A2 in this Annex

reports the list of those common variables divided into three categories:

a) Household dwelling conditions and presence of durable goods (23 variables).

b) Household head characteristics (8 variables)

c) Household socio-demographic characteristics (7 variables)

Since some variables collected in the LSMS survey presented some missing values it was decided to

impute them in order to avoid the loss of statistical units (and therefore degrees of freedom) in the

estimation of the linear regression model with variance components (see section 3). The imputation

procedure was based on the “sequential regression multivariate imputation” (SRMI) approach adopted

by the imputation software (IVE-ware), and it is fully described in the Annex 4.

The variables subjected to the imputation procedure were:

a) Type of building

b) Inhabited dwelling surface

c) Highest level of education achieved by any member of the household.

Each of the 38 variables distributions from the Census were compared with the corresponding

distribution from the LSMS, with the weighted distribution from the LSMS and, for the above three

variables, with the imputed LSMS distribution. A chi-square test was utilised for the comparisons. The

distributions are reported in the attached excel file (Distributions.xls).

The first decision to take lies in whether or not to consider the weights in the estimation of the linear

regression model in the LSMS data set.

Comparing the census distributions with the corresponding two in the LSMS (not weighted and

weighted), in 21 cases the original distribution fits better than the weighted distribution. Moreover in

the 17 cases where the weighted distribution fits better, for five variables the difference between the

two distributions is so small that they can considered the same, whereas for the other two cases, the

distributions are very different from the census one so that they cannot be included in the regression

model. Taking into account all the above considerations it seems necessary NOT to consider the

weights in the estimation of the linear regression models (see section 3).

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The second decision to take lies in the choice of the potential variables to be included in the regression

model as explanatory variables. According to the chi-square test, only 9 out of 38 LSMS distributions

fit the census counterpart very well. This leads to a trade-off between the use of many explanatory

variables (not highly comparable with those in the census) and the use of few explanatory variables

(loosing part of the explanation of the variability in the dependent variable in the model). To overcome

this problem it was decided to reduce the number of categories of most of the variables in order to get

new distributions (mainly dummies) which were similar, as far as possible, to those in the census.

Anyway, some variables have been excluded because they are not comparable at all. The list of new

variables to be used as potential regressors in the estimation of the model is reported in Table A1.

Table A1: Common constructed variables in the Census and the LSMS. Concept Variable Categories 1 Type of building Plastered 1=plastered, 0=otherwise 2 Main construction material Bricks_stone 1=bricks or stones, 0=otherwise 3 Elevator Lift 1=present, 0=otherwise 4 5 6 7 8

Time of construction Time44 Time4560 Time6180 Time8190 Time91

1=before 1945, 0=otherwise 1=1945-1960, 0=otherwise 1=1961-1980, 0=otherwise 1=1981-1990, 0=otherwise 1=after 1990, 0=otherwise

9 Number of dwellings in the building Dewll1 1=1 dwelling, 0=otherwise 10 Number of rooms Rooms 11 Inhabiting surface Surf1

Surf2 Surf3

1=less than 40mq, 0=otherwise 1=40-69mq, 0=otherwise 1=more than 69mq, 0=otherwise

12 Water supply for the dwelling Water 1=inside, 0=otherwise 13 Toilet facilities Wc 1=inside, 0=otherwise 14 Ownership of the dwelling Own 1=owner, 0=otherwise 15 Agricultural land Agricul 1=yes, 0=otherwise 16 Black and white or colour TV TV 1=yes, 0=otherwise 17 Parabolic Parabolic 1=yes, 0=otherwise 18 Refrigerator Refrigerator 1=yes, 0=otherwise 19 Washing machine Wash 1=yes, 0=otherwise 20 Electric or gas heater Heater 1=yes, 0=otherwise 21 Conditioning air Air 1=yes, 0=otherwise 22 Computer Computer 1=yes, 0=otherwise 23 Car Car 1=yes, 0=otherwise 24 Household head gender HH_female 1=female, 0=otherwise 25 Household head age HH_age 26 27

Migration Migr89 Migr90

1=Immigrated before 1990, 0=otherwise 1=Immigrated since 1990, 0=otherwise

28 Household head marital status HH_mstatus 1=married, 0=otherwise 29 Household head employment status HH_work 1=employed, 0=otherwise 30 Spouse age SP_age 0 if not present 31 Spouse economic status SP_work 1=employed, 0=otherwise 32 Household size HHsize 33 Eldest son age CH1_age 0 if not present

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34 Children aged 0-5 Child5 35 Children aged 6-15 Child6_15 36 37 38

Highest level of education achieved by any member of the household

High_edu1 High_edu2 High_edu3

1=up to lower secondary, 0=otherwise 1=Upper secondary, 0=otherwise 1=University or more, 0=otherwise

39 Number of non working members NO_work The construction of the two variables describing the migration phenomenon (migr89 and migr90 for

the household holder) needs to be explained, since we lose some information from the LSMS source.

According to the three questions in the census questionnaire, it is possible to identify the district of

birth, the district of residence in 1989 and the present district; it is therefore possible to describe four

different pattern for each household member: (0 0 1, 0 1 1, 1 0 1, 1 1 1) where 1 stands for “resident in

the actual district” at each of three periods, and 0 stand for “otherwise”.

Since we are here interested in the immigration phenomenon, we can define the person as immigrant

before the year 1989 for the second path, while we can define the person as immigrant from 1990 for

the first and the third path. Clearly for the third path, the person has also emigrated before the year

1989. Of course we cannot observe “double” migration movements occurring within the two non

observed bands (birth-1989 and 1990-today).

Graph A1: Migration: information from the LSMS.

[1]

Were you born here? YES NO [2] [3] Have you always lived here? Did you move after 1990? YES NO YES NO Path (1) [3] Path (4) Path (5) Did you move after 1990? Category 111 ory 001 Category 011 Categmigr89 = 0 r89 = 0 migr89 = 1 migmigr90 = 0 r90 = 1 migr90 = 0 mig NO YES Path (2) Path (3) Category 101 Category 111

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migr89 = 0 migr89 = 0 migr90 = 1 migr90 = 0 Path (3) would have generated migr89 = 1, but this path is not comparable with the Census, so it is assumed migr89 = 0. Comparing this information to that from the LSMS we can observe some differences in the definition

of the concepts that must be taken into account. The migration phenomenon in the LSMS survey is

observed thought three linked questions described in Graph A1. Here it is possible to describe five

different paths, one more than the information obtained from the census. Here we get path three

obtained, which corresponds to individuals born in the present district, not having lived continuously in

this district, but not moving to this district after the year 1990: it means that they have experienced a

“double” migration between the birth and the year 1990. For let the variable migr89 to be comparable

between the two sources we must drop this immigration before the year 1990.

Table A2: The common variables in the LSMS and Census CENSUS HOUSEHOLD SURVEY

HH Dwelling Conditions and Presence of Durable Goods 1 Building character (Section “Building”, Q. 2, variable

“Character”) 4 categories should be grouped into 2 as follows (1,2):1 = plastered, (3,4):2 = not plastered

Building outside appearance? (Module 3A, Part a, Q.3, variable “m3a_q03”) 3 categories should be grouped into 2 as follows (1,2):1 = plastered, (3):2 = not plastered

2 Main construction material (Section “Building”, Q. 3, variable “Material”) 4 categories: Pre-fabricated, Bricks or stones, wood, other

What is the major construction material of the external walls of building? (Module 3A, Q. 2, variable “m3a_q02) 6 categories should be grouped into 4 as follows (2:1) =Pre-fabricated, (1:2) = Bricks or stones, (3:3) = wood, (4,5,6):4 = other

3 Has the building an elevator? (Section “Building”, Q. 4, variable “Elevator”) Convert category 2 into category 0 in order to get the following: Dummy variable (1 – if has, 0 – if has not)

Does the dwelling have the following? .... elevator (Module 3A, Q. 11, variable “m3a_q11_7) Dummy variable (1 – if has, 0 – if has not)

4-5 Time of construction (section Building, Q. 5, variable “Construct” and “Construct_year”). 5 categories: before 1945, 1945-60, 1961-80, 1981-1990, after 1990, and if after 1990, specify the year.

Time of construction of the dwelling (Module 3A, Q. 5), 5 categories: before 1945, 1945-60, 1961-80, 1981-1990, after 1990, variable “m3a_q5a”; if after 1990, specify the year, variable “m3a_q5b”.

6 Number of dwellings in the building (Section “Building”, Q. 7, variable dwellings). 6 categories should be grouped into 3 as follow: (1:1) = 1 dwelling; (2,3,4,5):2 = 2-15 dwellings, (6:3) = 16 dwellings and more.

Dwelling type (Module 3A, Q1, variable “m3a_q01”). 4 categories, the last one can not be compared: single family house, building with up to 15 apartments, building with more than 15 apartments, other (specify).

7 Number of rooms (Section “Dwelling”, Q3, variable “Rooms”)

Number of rooms, excluding kitchen, balconies and corridor (Module 3A, Q8, variable “m3a_q08”).

8 Number of work rooms (Section “Dwelling”, Q3, variable “Rooms_work”)

Number of rooms used for business, (Module 3A, Q9, variable “m3a_q09”).

9 Does the dwelling has a room only for cooking? (Section “Dwelling”, Q4, variable “kitchen”).

Does the dwelling have the following? .... separate kitchen (Module 3A, Q. 11, variable “m3a_q11_1)

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10 What is the inhabited surface? (Section “Dwelling”, Q5, variable “inhabiting”). 5 categories: less than 40m2, 40-69 m2, 70-99 m2, 100-130 m2, more than 130 m2.

What is the area of you dwelling? (Module 3A, Q7, variable “m3a_q07”) 6 categories: less than 40m2, 40-69 m2, 70-99 m2, 100-130 m2, more than 130 m2, don’t know-not sure. The last category should be imputed.

11 Water supply for the dwelling (Section “Dwelling”, Q6, variable “Water”. 4 categories: inside the dwelling, outside the dwelling, well or water tank, not supplied with water, should be grouped as follows: (1:1) = water inside, (2,3,4,:2) = other.

Main source of water used. (Module 3B, Q1, variable “m3b_q01”). 7 categories: running water inside the dwelling, running water outside the dwelling, water truck, public tap, spring or well, river, lake, pond or similar, other (specify), should be grouped as follows: (1:1) = water inside, (2,3,4,5,6,7,:2) = other.

12 Toilet facility. (Section “Dwelling”, Q7, variable “WC”). 5 categories: one WC inside, two or more WC inside, WC outside with piping, WC outside without piping, no WC.

Kind of toilet. (Module 3A, Q10, variable “m3a_q10). 5 categories: one WC inside, two or more WC inside, WC outside with piping, WC outside without piping, other (specify). It is expected that “other” is “no WC”:

13 Principal heating. (Section “Dwelling”, Q8, variable “heating”). 3 categories: central heating, individual heating, no form of heating. Material for heating. (Section “Household”, Q2, variables heating_1-heating_6). A set of six dummieuse of each kind of mdistribution. Because of this reason the census and the LSMS variables are not comparable.

Does the dwelling have central heating? (Module 3B, Q12, variable “m3b_q12”) If no check Q16 to calculated individual heating or none (Module 3B, Q16, variable m3b_q16). What other sources of heating does your household mainly use? (Modulo 3B, Q16, variable “m3b_q16”).

should be grouped into 6 as follows: (2:1) = wood, (1:2) = electricity, (3:3) = gas, (4:4) = oil-petrol-etc, (5:5) = coal, (6,7:6) = none

s has been crated to describe the aterial, hence the result is not a

7 categories: electricity, wood, gas, oil-petrol, coal, none-no heating, other (specify),

14 Ownership of the dwelling. (Section “household”, Q1, variable “Ownership”) 3 categories: owner, renter, other. If no owner, who is the owner of the dwelling? (Section “household”, Q1, variable not_owner) 5 categories: another person or family, private building enterprise, old regime owners, public housing entity, other. The combination of the previous variables created a new variable with 4 categories: 1= owner, 2= renting from another person or family, renting from private building enterprises, renting from old regime owners, renting from others, 3= renting from public housing entities, 4= other, should be grouped as follows: (1:1) = owner , (2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.5:2) = renting from a private individual, (2.4:3) = renting from the state, (3:4) =other.

What is the ownership of the building? (Module 3A, Q13, variable “m3a_q13”). 6 categories should be grouped into 4 as follows: (1,2):1 = owner, (3:2) = renting from a private individual, (4:3) = renting from the state, (5, 6):4 =other.

15 Agricultural land (Section “household”, Q3, variable agricul_land). Do you own agricultural land? Dummy variable (1 – if has, 0 – if has not)

Did you cultivate in the last year any land owned to the household? (Module 12, Q01, variable m12_q01)

16-23 Household equipment (Section Household, Q4, variables tv parabolic refrigerator wash heater_elect heater_gas air computer car) Electric and gas heater have been merged into one variable.

(Module 3C, Q02, variable m3c_q02). Black and white and colour TV have been merged into one variable, TV.

Household (HH) head characteristics 24 Gender (Section “PI Individual Questionnaire, Q1,

variable sex, where referent_person = 1). 2 categories: Male , Female.

Gender. (Module 1, Q2, variable “m1_q02”). 2 categories: Male , Female.

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25 Age (Section “PI Individual Questionnaire, Q2, variable Age has been constructed from Q2, where referent_person = 1).

Age (Module 1, Q5, variable “m1_q05y”» where m1_q03 = 1).

26-27 Migration Place of birth (Section “PI Individual Questionnaire, Q3, variable id_district_birth where referent_person = 1), 3 categories: in Albania=district or town-village, Abroad. Place of residence on 1 April 1989 (Q4, variable id_district_res89 where referent_person = 1). 3 categories: in Albania=district or town-village, Abroad. Place of residence at census moment (Q6, where “at the same place where you reside” variable id_district where referent_person = 1). 4 categories: in Albania=at the same place where you reside, other district or other town-village, abroad. If abroad, the reason of the absence: 4 categories, Studies, Work, in an institutional household, other-not stated.

Were you born in this municipality? (Module 2, Q1, variable “m2_q01”, Module 2, Q2, variable “m2_q02”, Module 2, Q3, variable “m2_q03”, where m1_q03 = 1).

28 Marital status (Section “PI Individual Questionnaire, Q7, variable marital_status). 4 categories: Single, Married, Widowed, Divorced. If no single it is also asked month and year of last marriage.

Marital status. (Module 1, Q6, variable “m1_q06 where m1_q03 = 1). 5 categories: Married, Divorced/separated, Living together, Widow/er, Single to be grouped as follows: (3,5:1) = Single, (1:2) = Married, (4:3) = Widowed , (2:4) = Divorced.

29 Household head Highest diploma obtained (Section “PI Individual Questionnaire, Q10, variable hh_edu where referent_person = 1). 8 categories: No diploma, 4 years school (elementary), 8 years school (lower secondary), Upper Secondary-Vocational (2 years), Upper Secondary-General (4 years), Upper Secondary –Technical (4 years), University, Post-University. If university degree, specify which one.

Highest diploma attained (Module 4B, Q6, variable “m4b_q06” where m1_q03 = 1). 8 categories: None, Primary 4 years, Primary 8 years, Secondary general, Vocational 2 years, Vocational 4/5 years, University, Post-graduate to be grouped as follow: (1:1) = No diploma, (2:2) = 4 years school (elementary), (3:3) =8 years school (lower secondary) , (5:4) = Upper Secondary-Vocational (2 years), (4:5) = Upper Secondary-General (4 years), (6:6) = Upper Secondary–Technical (4 years), (7:7) = University, (8:8) = Post-University.

30 Employment Status (Section PI Individual Questionnaire, Q12, variable hh_work where referent_person = 1). 9 categories: Employed, Unemployed-looking for a new job, Unemployed-looking for the first job, Housekeeper, Student, Retired, In compulsory military service, Not employed-not looking for a job, Other inactive (handicapped, etc.) are grouped as follows: (1:1) = employed , (2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9 :2) = other. Dummy variable: work.

(Module 7A, Q5, variables m7A_q02 m7A_q03 m7A_q04 which is summarized in variable m7A_q05 where m1_q03 = 1).

31 Type of employment (Section PI Individual Questionnaire, Q15, variable Employment). 4 categories: Employee, Employer, Own account worker, Contribution family worker.

(Module 7c, question 6, variable m7c_q06) 4 categories: an employee of someone who is not a member of your household, a paid worker in a household farm or nonfarm business enterprise, an employer, a worker on own account or unpaid worker in a household farm or nonfarm business enterprise, are grouped as follows : (1:1) = Employee, (3:2) = Employer, (4:3) = Own

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account worker, (2:4) = Contribution family worker. Household (HH) socio-demographic characteristics 32 Age spouse (Section “PI Individual Questionnaire,

Q2, variable Age has been constructed from Q2, where referent_person = 2).

Age of spouse (Module 1, Q5, variable “m1_q05y” where m1_q03 = 2).

33 Economic status Spouse Employment Status (Section PI Individual Questionnaire, Q12, variable hh_work where referent_person = 2). 9 categories: Employed, Unemployed-looking for a new job, Unemployed-looking for the first job, Housekeeper, Student, Retired, In compulsory military service, Not employed-not looking for a job, Other inactive (handicapped, etc.) are grouped as follows: (1:1) = employed , (2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9 :2) = other. Dummy variable: work.

Economic status spouse (Module 7A, Q5, variable m7A_q05 where m1_q03 = 2)

34 Household size Variab mcomp was constructed in the data set.

Household size le nu

35 Eldest son age (Section “PI Individual Questionnaire, Q2, variable Ch1_Age has been constructed from Q2, where referent_person = 4 ).

Age (Module 1, Q5, variable “m1_q05y »» where m1_q03 = 3).

36 Number of children 0-5 (Section “PI Individual Questionnaire, Q2, variable child5 has been constructed from Q2, where referent_person = 4 ).

Number of children 0-5 (Module 1, Q5, variable “m1_q05y » , variable child5 has been constructed from Q5, where m1_q03 = 3).

37 Number of children 6-15 (Section “PI Individual Questionnaire, Q2, variable child6_15 has been constructed from Q2, where referent_person = 4 ).

Number of children 6-15 (Module 1, Q5, variable “m1_q05y » , variable child6_15 has been constructed from Q5, where m1_q03 = 3).

38 Highest level of education achieved by any member of the household Variable (Section “PI Individual Questionnaire, Q10, variable high_edu). 8 categories: No diploma, 4 years school (elementary), 8 years school (lower secondary), Upper Secondary-Vocational (2 years), Upper Secondary-General (4 years), Upper Secondary –Technical (4 years), University, Post-University. If university degree, specify which one.

Highest diploma attained (Module 4B, Q6, variable “m4b_q06”). 8 categories: None, Primary 4 years, Primary 8 years, Secondary general, Vocational 2 years, Vocational 4/5 years, University, Post-graduate to be grouped as follow: (1:1) = No diploma, (2:2) = 4 years school (elementary), (3:3) =8 years school (lower secondary) , (5:4) = Upper Secondary-Vocational (2 years), (4:5) = Upper Secondary-General (4 years), (6:6) = Upper Secondary–Technical (4 years), (7:7) = University, (8:8) = Post-University.

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Annex 3: The imputation procedures The imputation procedures are based on the “sequential regression multivariate imputation” (SRMI)

approach adopted by the imputation software (IVE-ware). The method proposed by the authors of the

software (Raghunathan, Lepkowski, Van Hoewyk, and Solenberger, 2001) constructs the imputed

values by fitting a sequence of regression models and drawing values from the corresponding

predictive distribution, under the hypothesis of Missing at Random (MAR) mechanism, infinite sample

size and simple random sampling.

The procedure is a variant of the estimation-maximisation (EM) algorithm and follows a bayesian

paradigm. The sequential multivariate model used made for more complete imputation of the variables,

while at the same time safeguarding their variance and their inter-correlation.5 A brief outline of the

approach may be described as follows:

° Initially, the variables are divided into two types: auxiliary variables used to impute the others, and

target variables which are the subject of the imputation. In the initial stages the auxiliary variables

are those relating to the demographic characteristics (sex, age) and to labour force characteristics.

° The auxiliary (exogenous) variables are supposed to be available for all cases. If not, some ad hoc

procedures are used to perform the necessary imputations. The objective of this is not to impute

'final' values of these variable as such, but to provide a basis for their use in the imputation of the

target (income) variables.

° The target variables are arranged in a sequence, starting with those with the smallest proportion of

(or with no) missing values. (Alternatively, the ordering can be in terms of decreasing explanatory

power of the variables.) Going down in sequence, each target variable is imputed using all the

variables above it, for which all information is available (or has been previously imputed), as

auxiliary variables in the multivariate regression.

The model is as follows. With U as the matrix containing variables with no missing data (including

as a result previous imputation), and Y1, Y2...Yk are variables with increasing rates of missing

data, the sequence of imputations is determined by the following factorisation:

[Y1¦U] [Y2¦U, Y1] ...[Yk¦U, Y1, ..., Yk-1 ]

where [Y¦X] is the conditional joint distribution of Y where x is known.

5 The EM procedure implemented by Eurostat was based on the work of a team at the Institute of Social Research (ISR) of the University of Michigan.

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The form of regression depends on the nature of Y, such as a generalised linear regression for

continuous variables (as in the case of income amounts), a logistical regression for binary variables,

etc.

° Once a variable with missing values has been imputed, it is moved from the second set to the first,

i.e. used as an auxiliary variable in imputation of the next variable in the list.

° After all variables in the list have been dealt with as above, the process is started again with the first

variable in the target set, but this time using all the other variables as predictors, using for each the

given or the most recently imputed value is used. The process is performed for each variable in

turn, and is repeated iteratively.

The LSMS data set presented missing values in four variables of interest:

a) Type of building

b) Inhabited dwelling surface

c) Highest level of education achieved by head of household

d) Highest level of education achieved by any member of the household.

Variable c) and d) showed the same value for more than 70% of the cases in the sample, so we have

decided to take into account only the highest level of education in the household in order to avoid

quasi-correlation problems in the imputation procedure and in the estimation of the consumption model

in section 3.

Table A3 reports the SAS-IVEware program and result of the imputation procedure.

The eight missing values in the type of building have been imputed maintaining the original

distribution of the variables. Five missing values out seven for the inhabited surface of the dwelling (in

classes) were imputed into the larger class (more than 130 mq) underlining the difficulty of respondents

in estimating the surface of a large dwelling. Finally, forty eight missing values out of sixty in the

highest level of education in the household were imputed into the lower classes, showing a sort of

“shame” felt by the respondents in declaring their low level of education achieved.

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Table A3: The SAS-IVEware imputation program and result. IVEware Setup Checker, Thu Jan 02 13:21:44 2003 1 Setup listing: DATAIN albania.LSMS; DATAOUT albania.LSMSimp; DEFAULT CATEGORICAL; CONTINUOUS logcon roomspp child5 ch6_15 hhsize elder hh_age hh_age2 sp_age no_work; TRANSFER hhid stratum; ITERATIONS 5; SEED 479013; RUN; IVEware Iterative Imputation Procedure, Thu Jan 02 13:33:09 2003 1 Variable Observed Imputed Double counted hhsize 3599 0 0 child5 3599 0 0 ch6_15 3599 0 0 elder 3599 0 0 hh_age 3599 0 0 hh_work 3599 0 0 migr89 3599 0 0 migr90 3599 0 0 sp_age 3599 0 0 sp_work 3599 0 0 high_edu 3537 62 0 no_work 3599 0 0 m3a_q03 3591 8 0 m3a_q07 3592 7 0 dwell1 3599 0 0 brick 3599 0 0 time44 3599 0 0 time4560 3599 0 0 time6180 3599 0 0 time8190 3599 0 0 roomspp 3599 0 0 surf1 3599 0 0 surf2 3599 0 0 waterin 3599 0 0 wcinside 3599 0 0 own 3599 0 0 TV 3599 0 0 parab 3599 0 0 fridge 3599 0 0 wash 3599 0 0 heater 3599 0 0 car 3599 0 0 agrland 3599 0 0 hh_fem 3599 0 0 hh_age2 3599 0 0 logcon 3599 0 0 Variable hhsize Observed Imputed Combined Number 3599 3599 Minimum 1 1 Maximum 15 15 Mean 4.32398 4.32398 Std Dev 1.80914 1.80914 Variable child5 Observed Imputed Combined Number 3599 3599 Minimum 0 0 Maximum 5 5 Mean 0.464296 0.464296

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Std Dev 0.737912 0.737912 IVEware Iterative Imputation Procedure, Thu Jan 02 13:33:09 2003 2 Variable ch6_15 Observed Imputed Combined Number 3599 3599 Minimum 0 0 Maximum 6 6 Mean 0.822729 0.822729 Std Dev 0.996506 0.996506 Variable elder Observed Imputed Combined Number 3599 3599 Minimum 0 0 Maximum 4 4 Mean 0.542651 0.542651 Std Dev 0.750987 0.750987 Variable hh_age Observed Imputed Combined Number 3599 3599 Minimum 15 15 Maximum 98 98 Mean 50.7877 50.7877 Std Dev 13.969 13.969 Variable hh_work Observed Imputed Combined Code Frequency Percent Frequency Percent Frequency Percent 0 1401 38.93 1401 38.93 1 2198 61.07 2198 61.07 Total 3599 100.00 3599 100.00 Variable migr89 Observed Imputed Combined Code Frequency Percent Frequency Percent Frequency Percent 0 2742 76.19 2742 76.19 1 857 23.81 857 23.81 Total 3599 100.00 3599 100.00 Variable migr90 Observed Imputed Combined Code Frequency Percent Frequency Percent Frequency Percent 0 3124 86.80 3124 86.80 1 475 13.20 475 13.20 Total 3599 100.00 3599 100.00 Variable sp_age Observed Imputed Combined Number 3599 3599 Minimum 0 0 Maximum 84 84 Mean 37.3857 37.3857 Std Dev 20.206 20.206 IVEware Iterative Imputation Procedure, Thu Jan 02 13:33:09 2003 3 Variable sp_work Observed Imputed Combined Code Frequency Percent Frequency Percent Frequency Percent 0 2182 60.63 2182 60.63 1 1417 39.37 1417 39.37 Total 3599 100.00 3599 100.00 Variable high_edu Observed Imputed Combined Code Frequency Percent Frequency Percent Frequency Percent 0 11 0.31 0 0.00 11 0.31 1 135 3.82 14 22.58 149 4.14 2 1253 35.43 26 41.94 1279 35.54 3 666 18.83 8 12.90 674 18.73 4 122 3.45 0 0.00 122 3.39

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5 804 22.73 11 17.74 815 22.65 6 511 14.45 3 4.84 514 14.28 7 35 0.99 0 0.00 35 0.97 Total 3537 100.00 62 100.00 3599 100.00 Variable no_work Observed Imputed Combined Number 3599 3599 Minimum 0 0 Maximum 12 12 Mean 2.8105 2.8105 Std Dev 1.62976 1.62976 Variable m3a_q03 Observed Imputed Combined Code Frequency Percent Frequency Percent Frequency Percent 1 1571 43.75 2 25.00 1573 43.71 2 722 20.11 2 25.00 724 20.12 3 1298 36.15 4 50.00 1302 36.18 Total 3591 100.00 8 100.00 3599 100.00 Variable m3a_q07 Observed Imputed Combined Code Frequency Percent Frequency Percent Frequency Percent 1 487 13.56 1 14.29 488 13.56 2 1442 40.14 0 0.00 1442 40.07 3 1173 32.66 0 0.00 1173 32.59 4 365 10.16 1 14.29 366 10.17 5 125 3.48 5 71.43 130 3.61 Total 3592 100.00 7 100.00 3599 100.00 Variable dwell1 Observed Imputed Combined Code Frequency Percent Frequency Percent Frequency Percent 0 1323 36.76 1323 36.76

1 2276 63.24 2276 63.24 Total 3599 100.00 3599 100.00 IVEware Iterative Imputation Procedure, Thu Jan 02 13:33:09 2003 4 Variable brick Observed Imputed Combined Code Frequency Percent Frequency Percent Frequency Percent 0 515 14.31 515 14.31 1 3084 85.69 3084 85.69 Total 3599 100.00 3599 100.00 Variable time44 Observed Imputed Combined Code Frequency Percent Frequency Percent Frequency Percent 0 3329 92.50 3329 92.50 1 270 7.50 270 7.50 Total 3599 100.00 3599 100.00 Variable time4560 Observed Imputed Combined Code Frequency Percent Frequency Percent Frequency Percent 0 3159 87.77 3159 87.77 1 440 12.23 440 12.23 Total 3599 100.00 3599 100.00 Variable time6180 Observed Imputed Combined Code Frequency Percent Frequency Percent Frequency Percent 0 2404 66.80 2404 66.80 1 1195 33.20 1195 33.20 Total 3599 100.00 3599 100.00 Variable time8190 Observed Imputed Combined Code Frequency Percent Frequency Percent Frequency Percent

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0 2714 75.41 2714 75.41 1 885 24.59 885 24.59 Total 3599 100.00 3599 100.00 Variable roomspp Observed Imputed Combined Number 3599 3599 Minimum 0.0833333 0.0833333 Maximum 8 8 Mean 0.677459 0.677459 Std Dev 0.495535 0.495535 Variable surf1 Observed Imputed Combined Code Frequency Percent Frequency Percent Frequency Percent 0 3112 86.47 3112 86.47 1 487 13.53 487 13.53 Total 3599 100.00 3599 100.00 IVEware Iterative Imputation Procedure, Thu Jan 02 13:33:09 2003 5 Variable surf2 Observed Imputed Combined Code Frequency Percent Frequency Percent Frequency Percent 0 2157 59.93 2157 59.93 1 1442 40.07 1442 40.07 Total 3599 100.00 3599 100.00 Variable waterin Observed Imputed Combined Code Frequency Percent Frequency Percent Frequency Percent 0 1488 41.34 1488 41.34 1 2111 58.66 2111 58.66 Total 3599 100.00 3599 100.00 Variable wcinside Observed Imputed Combined Code Frequency Percent Frequency Percent Frequency Percent 0 1171 32.54 1171 32.54 1 2428 67.46 2428 67.46 Total 3599 100.00 3599 100.00 Variable own Observed Imputed Combined Code Frequency Percent Frequency Percent Frequency Percent 0 265 7.36 265 7.36 1 3334 92.64 3334 92.64 Total 3599 100.00 3599 100.00 Variable TV Observed Imputed Combined Code Frequency Percent Frequency Percent Frequency Percent 0 177 4.92 177 4.92 1 3422 95.08 3422 95.08 Total 3599 100.00 3599 100.00 Variable parab Observed Imputed Combined Code Frequency Percent Frequency Percent Frequency Percent 0 2819 78.33 2819 78.33 1 780 21.67 780 21.67 Total 3599 100.00 3599 100.00 Variable fridge Observed Imputed Combined Code Frequency Percent Frequency Percent Frequency Percent 0 629 17.48 629 17.48 1 2970 82.52 2970 82.52 Total 3599 100.00 3599 100.00 Variable wash Observed Imputed Combined

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Code Frequency Percent Frequency Percent Frequency Percent 0 1681 46.71 1681 46.71 IVEware Iterative Imputation Procedure, Thu Jan 02 13:33:09 2003 6 Variable wash Observed Imputed Combined 1 1918 53.29 1918 53.29 Total 3599 100.00 3599 100.00 Variable heater Observed Imputed Combined Code Frequency Percent Frequency Percent Frequency Percent 0 1465 40.71 1465 40.71 1 2134 59.29 2134 59.29 Total 3599 100.00 3599 100.00 Variable car Observed Imputed Combined Code Frequency Percent Frequency Percent Frequency Percent 0 3243 90.11 3243 90.11 1 356 9.89 356 9.89 Total 3599 100.00 3599 100.00 Variable agrland Observed Imputed Combined Code Frequency Percent Frequency Percent Frequency Percent 0 2023 56.21 2023 56.21 1 1576 43.79 1576 43.79 Total 3599 100.00 3599 100.00 Variable hh_fem Observed Imputed Combined Code Frequency Percent Frequency Percent Frequency Percent 0 3140 87.25 3140 87.25 1 459 12.75 459 12.75 Total 3599 100.00 3599 100.00 Variable hh_age2 Observed Imputed Combined Number 3599 3599 Minimum 225 225 Maximum 9604 9604 Mean 2774.47 2774.47 Std Dev 1494.59 1494.59 Variable logcon Observed Imputed Combined Number 3599 3599 Minimum 7.30399 7.30399 Maximum 11.1479 11.1479 Mean 8.95251 8.95251 Std Dev 0.531571 0.531571 Bibliography INSTAT (2000), General Census of Agricultural Holdings 1998.

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