The interest in measuring poverty is ongoing in national and international agendas. Instead
of only focusing on national measures, an important goal is to find out where the poor
live within the country. In the case of the Republic of Vanuatu, the geographical distribution
of poverty or hardship across the 66 local area councils is of interest for their national
development plan. Therefore, this methodological report provides point and uncertainty
estimates for the hardship rate in all local area councils. The estimates are produced with
a small area estimation approach that combines the 2019-2020 National Sustainable Development
Plan Baseline Survey with the 2020 National Population and Housing Census.