We investigate household electricity access in a poor rural setting in South Africa, showing that the acquisition of connections is not the simple monotonic process often assumed in the literature. We argue that changes ...

Background: Household trends are generally tracked by means of repeated cross-sections, such as censuses or nationally representative surveys. However, the trends may be driven either by changes within households over time ...

Progress on achieving the Sustainable Development Goals requires high quality measurement. Too few attempts are made to assess the accuracy of existing measurements and how it changes over time. We compare household counts ...