The sensitivity to key data imputations of recent estimates of income poverty and inequality in South Africa

Economic Modelling

Volumn 23, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 822-835

  Ardington, Cally ^a   Lam, David ^b   Leibbrandt, Murray ^a   Welch, Matthew ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Inequality; Missing data imputation; Poverty

Indexed keywords

EID: 33747626354     PISSN: 02649993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.econmod.2005.10.009     Document Type: Article

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