The purpose of this living standardsassessment is to update and expand the first livingstandards assessment report that documented the povertysituation in Uzbekistan in 2000/2001. Attention has beenpaid to ensure the comparability of the analysis of thethree years of data. The data themselves are largelycomparable: the sampling methods have remained the same, ashave the questionnaires and the basic implementation of thesurvey. However, some changes have occurred, primarily dueto improved field work: these have been taken into accountin the present analysis. The chapter is divided into threeparts. An overview of the welfare levels in Uzbekistan from2000-01 through 2003 is presented in section one, along witha discussion about the data sources and their strengths andweaknesses for multi-year analysis, and an analysis of therelationship between economic growth and welfare. In sectiontwo the basic indicators of living standards over the timeperiod are presented. Section three contains information ontwo topics of interest for short-term and medium-termwelfare: labor and education.
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