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Oya, Carlos (2015) 'Who counts? Challenges and biases in defining ‘households’ in research on poverty.' Journal of Development Effectiveness, 7 (3). pp. 336-345.

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Abstract

In an important article published in 2002, H. White made a case for mixed methods in poverty analysis and addressed a number of puzzles arising from conventional oppositions between quantitative and qualitative approaches. One of the examples was the relationship between household size and poverty and the related notion of household economies of scale. This paper revisits this debate and updates it with new contributions on the use and misuse of the ‘household’ in surveys and censuses, particularly in quantitative research designs. Indeed, there is much scope for improving the way quantitative survey designs treat the ‘household’ and for learning from qualitative approaches, especially in poor agrarian contexts. Some alternative approaches to the household and to sampling decisions in survey design for poverty and labour studies are proposed and their advantages and disadvantages briefly discussed.

Item Type: Journal Article
SOAS Departments & Centres: Departments and Subunits > Department of Development Studies
Legacy Departments > Faculty of Law and Social Sciences > Department of Development Studies
ISSN: 19439407
DOI (Digital Object Identifier): https://doi.org/10.1080/19439342.2015.1068358
Date Deposited: 28 Jul 2015 13:39
URI: https://eprints.soas.ac.uk/id/eprint/20291

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