DEVELOPING COST EFFECTIVE METHODS FOR ESTIMATING HOUSEHOLD INCOME AND NUTRIENT INTAKE ADEQUACY By

in developing countries spend billions of dollars every year on efforts to improve the well-being of rural households. Most of these interventions have the ultimate goal of reducing poverty, and many include specific objectives of improving household income, dietary intake, or nutritional status. Since an accurate assessment of these outcomes is costly and time-consuming, much research has attempted to identify simple indicators which are correlated with the variables of interest. For example, measures of household assets have been used as indicators of income levels (Little 1997; see Swindale and Ohri-Vachaspati 1999 on food consumption indicators). Evaluations of the interventions can then rely in part on changes in these indicators to indicate whethe