Estimating Global Poverty in Stata

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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Main Authors: Castaneda Aguilar, R. Andres, Lakner, Christoph, Prydz, Espen B., Soler Lopez, Jorge, Wu, Ruoxuan, Zhao, Qinghua
Format: Working Paper biblioteca
Language:English
Published: World Bank, Washington, DC 2019-09
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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