Estimation of income quantiles at the small area level in Tuscany

Available data to measure poverty and living conditions in Italy come mainly from sample surveys, such as the Survey on Income and Living Conditions (EU-SILC). However, these data can be used to produce accurate estimates only at the national or regional level. To obtain estimates referring to smaller unplanned domains small area methodologies can be used. The aim of this paper is to provide a general framework in which the joint use of large sources of data, namely the EU-SILC and the Population Census data, can fulfill poverty and living conditions estimates for Italian Provinces and Municipalities such as the Head Count Ratio and the quantiles of the household equivalised income.