Targeting and Fairness Data#

Example file: synthetic_data/targeting.csv

unique_id

weight

outcome

col1

col35

jb9f3j

12.6

1.5

5.2

category3

ad8b3b

1.6

2.7

6.1

category6

oewf9ras

3.2

4.1

1.5

bncz83

6.0

0.9

2.6

category2

Fields
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*unique_id: string
Unique ID for each survey observation

weight: float
Weight for each survey observation (if sample weights are used)

outcome1outcome20: float
“Ground truth” poverty outcomes. Can have any column names.

proxy1proxy20: float
Poverty proxies used for targeting. Can have any column names.

characteristic1characteristic20: object
Characteristics for fairness analysis. Must be of categorical type.

Warning

All proxy measures should go in the same direction!

Note

Columns without a preceding asterisk ‘*’ are optional