Causal Small Area Estimation in Mozambique
# Causal SAE - Floods and Poverty in Mozambique
This repo applies the Causal Small Area Estimation approach from the causalSAE package to study the causal effects of the 2022 cyclonic season flooding on area-level household consumption and poverty in Mozambique
## **Data**
1. **Household survey**: 2022 Mozambican Household Budget Survey, known as Inquéritos sobre Orçamento Familiar (IOF)
2. **Geodata**: WorldPop harmonised geospatial covariates for 2022: temperature, nightlights, rainfall, building footprints, distance to land cover classes.
3. **Flood**: Global Flood Awareness System (GloFAS) Global Flood Monitoring (GFM) product
4. **Census**: Population and Housing Census in Mozambique (2017), including a shape file with Enumeration Area (EA) boundaries