representative at district level. Although the census did not collect information on income and expenditure, it provides information on a number of characteristics likely to be correlates of poverty. The census and survey data have several common household variables such as household size, composition, education, housing characteristics, access to utilities and location of residences. In this method, it is important that the survey and census are almost covering the same period. The main assumption of the method is that the parameters estimated from the survey data are almost equally applicable to the period covered by the census.