Combining Household Income and Asset Data to Identify Livelihood Strategies and Their Dynamics
提出一种结合收入与资产数据的统计方法，用于识别农村家庭生计策略类型及其随时间的变化，并利用尼泊尔427户家庭的三轮面板数据验证，发现多数家庭至少改变一次策略，脱贫常需通过务农、小买卖和外出务工积累资产作为中间步骤。
Current approaches to identifying and describing rural livelihood strategies, and household movements between strategies over time, in developing countries are imprecise. Here we: (i) present a new statistical quantitative approach combining income and asset data to identify household activity choice variables, characterise livelihood strategy clusters, and analyse movements between strategies, and (ii) apply the approach using an environmentally-augmented three-wave household (n = 427) level panel dataset from Nepal. Combining income and asset data provides a better understanding of livelihood strategies and household movements between strategies over time than using only income or asset data. Most households changed livelihood strategy at least once over the two three-year periods. A common pathway out of poverty included an intermediate step during which households accumulate assets through farming, petty trading, and migratory work.