11:00 - 12:00
We-STS03
Chair:
Christine Mhundwa (Journalist, Zimbabwe)
Estimating and communicating uncertainty in official poverty indicators at regional level
Ilaria Benedetti, (Email), Tiziana Laureti, (Email)
University of Tuscia

The present study focuses on estimating and communicating and standard errors for the at-risk-of-poverty rate (AROP) at regional level by using linearization method. We consider the case of Italy by providing practical suggestions for communicating uncertainty in the national quality reports in order to ameliorate the way in which uncertainty is communicated.