Hardship at local area council level in Vanuatu - An application of Small Area Estimation: Methodological Report

The interest in measuring poverty is ongoing in national and international agendas. Insteadof only focusing on national measures, an important goal is to find out where the poorlive within the country. In the case of the Republic of Vanuatu, the geographical distributionof poverty or hardship across the 66 local area councils is of interest for their nationaldevelopment plan. Therefore, this methodological report provides point and uncertaintyestimates for the hardship rate in all local area councils. The estimates are produced witha small area estimation approach that combines the 2019-2020 National Sustainable DevelopmentPlan Baseline Survey with the 2020 National Population and Housing Census.