This note is the product of a collaboration between the Poverty and Equity Global Practice of the World Bank and the Somali National Bureau of Statistics (SNBS). The technical assistance provided by the World Bank was led by Ifeanyi Edochie, with support from Alastair Haynes and Alejandro de la Fuente. Abdisalam Mohamed and Mohamed Abdinur led the SNBS team, who kindly facilitated the Somali Integrated Household Budget Survey 2022 for this work. The note benefited from the review and inputs of Paul Corral and Alexandru Cojocaru.

Household surveys are often representative at the national level or at the level of the first administrative division (region/state level). National Statistical Offices and government entities can benefit from poverty estimation at a higher level of resolution, such as the district level. This note describes the small area estimation (SAE) methodology implemented to estimate poverty rates in Somalia at the district level.