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Characterizing weights in the measurement of multidimensional poverty : an application of data-driven approaches to Cameroonian data
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The study seeks to compare multidimensional poverty indices in Cameroon generated by different multivariate techniques. After carefully exploring the theoretical and empirical review of the statistical methods of setting weights in the measurement of multidimensional poverty, the study employs three different statistical or data-driven methods - principal components analysis, multiple correspondence analysis, and fuzzy set approach to set weights in the aggregation procedure. Use is made o...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Reviewed (other)
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- Publisher:
- Oxford Poverty & Human Development Initiative (OPHI) Publisher's website
- Series:
- OPHI working paper
- Publication date:
- 2008-01-01
- Paper number:
- 21
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- English
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- ora:9411
- Deposit date:
- 2014-11-27
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- Oxford Poverty & Human Development Initiative
- Copyright date:
- 2008
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- Copyright © Oxford Poverty & Human Development Initiative 2008.
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