Estimating Global Poverty in Stata
This note describes how poverty measures reported by the World Bank can be replicated using the Stata command povcalnet. Users can estimate poverty at any poverty line for the world, regions or sets of countries, by directly querying the World Bank's database of household surveys. The command also retrieves inequality statistics provided by the database.
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Format: | Working Paper biblioteca |
Language: | English |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2019-09
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Subjects: | POVERTY, INEQUALITY, SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS, STATA PROGRAM, SOFTWARE, POVERTY MEASUREMENT, |
Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/836101568994246528/Estimating-Global-Poverty-in-Stata-The-Povcalnet-Command https://hdl.handle.net/10986/32477 |
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Summary: | This note describes how poverty measures
reported by the World Bank can be replicated using the Stata
command povcalnet. Users can estimate poverty at any poverty
line for the world, regions or sets of countries, by
directly querying the World Bank's database of
household surveys. The command also retrieves inequality
statistics provided by the database. |
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