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The FAO parametric versus IFPRI non-parametric approach to estimating the prevalence of undernourishment: Issues relating to the use of household level data from National Household Surveys. FAO Statistics Working Paper Series/ESSG/012e
01/12/2009
A non-parametric approach suggested by researchers from the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) for measuring food deprivation (undernourishment) is not an improvement to the...
FAO Statistical Yearbook 2009
20/10/2009
The FAO Statistical Yearbook provides a selection of indicators on food and agriculture by country. It brings together data from different domains and sources, and...
Undernourishment and critical food poverty: Indicators at national and sub-national levels. FAO Statistics Working Paper Series/ESSG/014e
01/06/2009
Indicators to measure food poverty and undernourishment are useful for understanding food insecurity at national level and within countries. This paper discusses two indicators: proportion...
Monitoring hunger: Indicators at global and subnational levels. FAO Statistics Working Paper Series/ESSG/013e
01/04/2009
This paper presents three different hunger indicators and outlines how they can be used to assess the extent of foodinsecurity inpopulationgroups globally andwithin countries at...
Selected indicators of food and agricultural development in the Asia-Pacific region 1998-2008
01/01/2009
This is the twenty-fifth issue of the above publication, a comprehensive and detailed compilation of statistics on farming, livestock, fishery, forestry and nutrition in Asia-Pacific...
Measuring hunger at subnational level. FAO Statistics Working Paper Series/ESSA/005e
04/03/2008
This manual provides a set of guidelines to professionals involved in the estimation of food security statistics using food consumption data collected in National Household...
Seguimiento de resultados en la agricultura y el desarrollo rural en condiciones no ideales. Libro de Consulta de indicadores para el monitoreo y la evaluación
01/01/2008
El Libro de Consulta ofrece una serie de enfoques viables para el diseño de un sistema de M&E que podría ser de gran relevancia para...
The Probability Distribution Framework for estimating the Prevalence of Undernourishment. FAO Statistics Working Paper Series/ESSG/009e
02/07/2007
In his pioneering study carried in the early 1960’s, Sukhatme had formulated the estimate of the prevalence of undernourishment in a population within a bivariate...
On reliability of estimates of inequality in distributions derived from sample survey data. FAO Statistics Working Paper Series/ESSG/011e
02/04/2007
For studying inequalities in populations, the interest often lies in estimating frequency distributions. Several factors of interest, such as income or expenditure, depict highly skewed...
The effect of sampling design on the reliability of estimates of the variance of distributions derived from household survey data: a simulation study. FAO Statistics Working Paper Series/ESSG/010e
02/04/2007
On a regular basis, FAO produces estimates of the prevalence of undernourishment and related measures that require estimates of the frequency distribution of household per...