The Rome Center for Development Data organized two sessions during the special conference on “Measuring Income, Wealth and Well-being in Africa”, hosted on November 10-13, 2022 by the International Association for Research on Income and Wealth (IARIW) and the Tanzania National Bureau of Statistics (TNBS).
On November 10th the Rome Center and IARIW co-hosted a training session on the measurement of income and wealth in household surveys. The session took place at the margins of the IARIW-TNBS Conference on Measurement of Income, Wealth and Well-being in Africa in Arusha, Tanzania. Links to the presentations are available at the bottom of this page.
This session's goal was to train graduate students, junior national statistics office staff and other survey practitioners, as well as early career researchers in survey methods, in the fundamentals of collecting and analyzing information on household income and wealth via household surveys. The training session was attended by 52 researchers and statisticians from 15 countries, most of them from Sub-Saharan Africa.
On November 2nd the Rome Center contributed a plenary session at the conference on “The Partnership for Capacity Development on Household Surveys for Welfare Analysis: A New Approach to an Old Issue”.
The sessions provided an opportunity to discuss how to move forward an agenda on statistical capacity development in Africa. The session was chaired by Oliver Chinganya (Director, Africa Centre for Statistics, UNECA) and included as panelists X Y (Director, Tanzania National Bureau of Statistics), Tumaini Katunzi (Rector, EASTC), Samuel Njuru (Senior Statistician, EAC), Rob Swinkels (Senior Economist, Tanzanian Office, World Bank), Catherine van Rompaey (President, IARIW), and Ritha Matee (Master Student, EASTC).
The Agenda of the Training session was as follows:
Chair: Alberto Zezza (Center for Development Data, World Bank)
1. Measuring welfare, trade-offs and complementarities: Income, wealth and consumption (Giovanni Vecchi, University of Rome Tor Vergata)
2. Issues in the measurement of Wealth (Giovanni D’Alessio, Bank of Italy and Center for Development Data)
3. Adjusting for prices and household size composition (Dean Jolliffe, World Bank)
4. Perspectives from LIS: Challenges in integrating and harmonizing high- and low-income country data (Teresa Munzi, Luxembourg Income Study)
