Justin P. Crane - Master's Thesis Final Defense
| May 23, 2006 | |
| Justin Crane presents his Master’s Thesis Final Defense on Monday, May 8th at 3:15pm in 1305 McGavran-Greenberg building. Full details follow.Determining whether Household Water and Sanitation Indicators can be used for Ex-ante Evaluations to Identify the Poor in Developing Countries
This research examines how key household water and sanitation indicators can predict poverty using data from a Kathmandu household survey. I found that water and sanitation indicators were able to correctly identify 68% of households using a strict poverty standard developed from income, expenditure, and asset data, and 73% of households using a similar but slightly less strict poverty standard. Adding a household indicator (the type of cooking fuel used by the household) to the water and sanitation indicators increased the amount of correctly assessed households to 73% with the strict standard and 77% with the less strict standard. I also examine the affect water and sanitation indicators have on the ability of asset indices to predict poverty. I found that the addition of water and sanitation indicators to the asset index did increase its ability to predict poverty based on income and expenditure data; however the increase was negligible. Committee Members: For further information please contact Rebecca Riggsbee Lloyd by email at Rebecca_Lloyd@unc.edu |
