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Abstract
Estimated poverty measures at '05 PPP $1.25/day and $2/day international poverty lines. These measures are now available for 24 countries in sub-Saharan Africa at the province or district level.
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The shapefile download contains the following attributes:
svyCode |
survey code |
ISO3 |
ISO 3-letter country code |
year |
survey year |
svyL1Code |
region code (administrative unit, level-1 - used in survey micro-data) |
svyL1Name |
region name (administrative unit, level-1 - used in survey micro-data) |
prettyName |
region name, corrected |
hc_poor1 |
poverty headcount ratio - below '05 PPP $1.25/day |
hc_poor2 |
poverty headcount ratio - below '05 PPP $2/day |
povgap_ppp1 |
poverty gap index - below '05 PPP $1.25/day |
povgap_ppp2 |
poverty gap index - below '05 PPP $2/day |
sevpov_ppp1 |
poverty severity index - below '05 PPP $1.25/day |
sevpov_ppp2 |
poverty severity index - below '05 PPP $2/day |
sd_poor1 |
standard deviation of poverty headcount - below '05 PPP $1.25/day |
sd_poor2 |
standard deviation of poverty headcount - below '05 PPP $2/day |
num_poor1 |
poverty headcount - below '05 PPP $1.25/day |
num_poor2 |
poverty headcount - below '05 PPP $2/day |
totpop |
population |
Data Sources & Credits
Azzarri, C., Wood, S., G. Hyman, E. Barona, M. Bacou and Z. Guo. 2012. Sub-national Poverty Map for Sub-Saharan Africa at 2005 International Poverty Lines (r12.12). Available from http://harvestchoice.org/.
Data sources include Povcalnet, RIGA and national household surveys for 29 countries. Additional data and technical contributions from: Harold Coulombea, Quentin Wodona, Peter Lanjouwa, and Brian Blankespoora.
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