  The average household income is one of the most important indexes for
decision making and the modelling of economic inequity and poverty. In this
work we propose a practical procedure to estimate the average income using
small area methods. We illustrate our proposal using information from a
multipurpose survey and suitable economic and demographic variables such as the
multidimensional poverty and the valorization indexes and the official
population projections. We find that the standard relative errors for the
income average estimates improve substantially when the proposed methodology is
implemented.
