Methodology of Poverty Measurement in Bosnia and Herzegovina

Conclusions and future steps Evident methodological improvement was done in order to introduce and to standardize the poverty measurement in B&H There is still a lot of room for improvements, especially regarding following issues: (i) master sample on the basis of 2013 Population census results; (ii) full-scale EU-SILC in 2019/2020; (iii) increasing the quality of income data; (iv) methodological and software support in data editing and imputations phases; (v) assistance in net-gross conversion of EU-SILC income variables; (vi) assistance in calculation of cross-sectional and longitudinal weights and standard errors of survey estimates; (vii) support in production of complex social indicators; (viii) adequate software support is needed (SAS).

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