Using Machine Learning to Predict Poverty Status in Costa Rican Households

11/26/2021

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by   Ji Yoon Kim, et al.

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This study presents two supervised multiclassification machine learning models to predict the poverty status of Costa Rican households as a way to support government and business sectors make decisions in a rapidly changing social and economic environment. Using the Costa Rican household dataset collected via the proxy means test conducted by the Inter-American Development Bank, Random Forest and Gradient Boosted Trees achieved F1 scores of 64.9 68.4 impact on predicting poverty status.