Capacity building in poverty mapping

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Capacity building in poverty mapping
Country proposal Vietnam
Members Mr. Tran Ngoc Truong Mr. Gian Thanh
Cong Ms. Lo Thi Duc Mr. Le Trung Hieu
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I. Background information
1. Progress in Poverty mapping

• Poverty mapping tasks completed
• - First map was conducted in 2002 using
  household survey of 1998 and census 1999.
• - Update of poverty map using more recent data
  of household survey in 2002 and 2004
• - Construction of HCM city poverty maps using
  household survey in 2004 and HCM census in 2004
  (10 sample with household characteristics)

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I. Background information

• Poverty mapping task in progress
• - Verification of National poverty maps and HCM
  poverty maps.
• - Analysis on the panel data of 2002 and 2004 in
  combination with other data sources to assess the
  time-variation to update the poverty maps using
  these two sources of household survey
• - Update of National poverty maps using (i)
  household survey in 2004 and agriculture census
  in 2006 and (ii) household survey in 2006 and
  agriculture census in 2006.

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I. Background information

• 2. Collaborators
• Information Center for Agriculture and Rural
  Development
• Ministry of Planning and Investment
• Ministry of Finance
• Institute of Economics
• General Statistical Office
• Institute of Labor Science and Social Affairs
• National Economics University
• The World Bank in Vietnam

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I. Background information

• 3. Software used and method of analysis
• Software
• STATA and POVMAP Analytical software
• Arcview-GIS Mapping software
• Methodology Small-area estimation.
• 4. Expected time for completing poverty maps One
  year
• In which data collection and setup (code
  matching, variables selection...) take time

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I. Background information

• 5. Status/ plan of integrating GIS
• GIS variables were collected but we dont know
  whether it is the most recent data and it is
  available at lower level
• 6. Support from Planning Ministry and other
  related ministries
• Staffs from these agencies are member of poverty
  task force that directly involve in poverty
  mapping analysis

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I. Background information

• 7. View of our agency about this training
  program
• Capacity building
• Background knowledge on statistics and
  econometric
• Knowledge on statistical(STATA) and poverty
  mapping software (POVMAP)
• Hands-on skills
• English fluency
• Experience sharing with Asian countries

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II. Outputs of the first training

• 1. Report Presentation on identification of data
  sources and common variables selection
• 2. Identification of census and survey data
• 3. Whole set of training materials including
  Course materials, Povmap manual, do file and
  dataset for Nepal case, country presentation of
  Thailand by NSO and CDD and dataset used
• 4. Knowledge learned in this training (i)
  Background knowledge on poverty analysis,
  statistics and econometric (ii) Knowledge of
  statistical and poverty mapping software (iii)
  Intensive training expertise from two teachers
  Experiences from presentation of host country
  Thailand and Nepal (iv) Experiences from
  discussion among other Asian countries (v)
  Hands-on skills

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II. Outputs of the first training

• Next visit to GIC
• Preferred starting dates Middle of February
• Tasks to be completed

• - Completion of common variables selection
  incorporating GIS variables
• - Construction of precise expenditure/income
  equations
• - Construction of poverty maps for Vietnam using
  latest data of census and survey

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III. Key activities

• 1. Collect survey and census data
• - Survey data Latest survey is in 2006
• - Census data Latest census is Rural
  Agriculture and Fishery Census in 2006. This
  census covers only rural population and
  agriculture household in urban area.
• 2. Preparation of STATA or SPSS files
• All data files are available in STATA format

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III. Key activities

• 3. Identification of common variables and
  matching
• - Households specific variables demographic,
  land, housing and assets, type of economic
  activities, education, occupation and
  employment...
• - It should be noted that questionnaire in
  general is not the same between census and
  survey. Some variables need to be redefined to
  be comparable.
• - Matching Administrative codes are completely
  different between census and survey.
• This task is time consuming since the manual
  recoding at lowest level should be done for
  around 10 thousand communes

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III. Key activities

• 4. Preparation of GIS data files
• - Data on GIS variables need to be collected in
  the year corresponding to the year of census and
  survey data.
• - Main variables would be Elevation, slope,
  roads, number of markets, number of
  school/university/health care center, climate
  (rainfall, temperature, humidity...), ect
• 5. Weekly reporting whole team progress to staffs
  of GIC

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III. Key activities

• 6. Invitation letters
• It will be sent to GIC staff as soon as we
  complete the construction of datasets.
• The date of visit is preferred to be around
  second week after New Year but it should be
  agreed with the GIC staffs.

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III. Key activities

• 7. Working in-country with staffs
• - Detailed schedule will be sent to GIC staffs
  before country visit. Hands on training is
  necessary during implementation at all steps
• 8. Pick up activities from the first
  presentation that we need to complete
• - Understanding of questionnaires in both
  census and survey
• - Select and compare common variables from
  census and survey
• - Collect GIS variables
• - Matching codes between census and survey

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III. Key activities

• 9. Other relevant activities
• - Getting permission on accessing both census
  and survey data
• - Updating the latest version of map shape file
  for spatial demonstration of poverty rates at all
  level of aggregation
• - Matching codes between data files and map
  shape file

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IV. Constraints to complete the activities

• Access to data requires permission from data
  providing agency (GSO), fair amount of fund would
  be needed for data purchase
• Code matching manually takes much time
• It is still controversial whether poverty
  analysis should be based on income or expenditure
  approach. As opposed to Worldbank approach, the
  government prefers using income to calculate
  poverty measures

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V. Proposed working arrangement

• Poverty mapping team is set up which includes
  staffs from GSO and ILSSA.
• Technical supports would be provided by experts
  from GIC.
• Each member works independently on the specific
  tasks allocated. It is expected that two members
  will work on same task and share/compare the
  outputs to each other.
• All members will gather every week to discuss on
  the outputs. During the implementation, technical
  assistance from GIC staffs is needed in terms of
  providing instruction and comments.
• Besides, communication among members would mostly
  be via email.

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6. Communication

• The poverty mapping team will maintain the
  frequent contact with GIC staffs via email.
• It is expected that for every three weeks GIC
  staffs will write a summary report on the
  progress of the work done by the team and
  suggestion for the next step.

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