PovcalNet Online Poverty Analysis Tool

World Bank: PovcalNet Online Poverty Analysis Tool

PovcalNet is an interactive computational tool that allows you to replicate the calculations made by the World Bank's researchers in estimating the extent of absolute poverty in the world, including the $1 a day poverty measures, as published in the background papers by Chen and Ravallion and in the 2007 World Development Indicators.  See http://iresearch.worldbank.org/PovcalNet/jsp/index.jsp.

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Table	Group	Definition	Source	Last IFs Update	UsedInPreprocessor	Years
SeriesGiniPovCalRur	SocioPolitical	Gini index of income inequality (lower = more equal)	PovCalNet, World Bank available at http://iresearch.worldbank.org/PovcalNet/jsp/index.jsp and Ifs database	2006/07	No
SeriesGiniPovCalTot	SocioPolitical	Gini index of income inequality (lower = more equal)	PovCalNet, World Bank available at http://iresearch.worldbank.org/PovcalNet/jsp/index.jsp and Ifs database	2006/07	No
SeriesGiniPovCalTotExt	SocioPolitical	Gini index of income inequality (lower = more equal) total, extended table	PovCalNet, World Bank available at http://iresearch.worldbank.org/PovcalNet/jsp/index.jsp and Ifs database	2017/06/20	No
SeriesGiniPovCalUrb	SocioPolitical	Gini index of income inequality (lower = more equal)	PovCalNet, World Bank available at http://iresearch.worldbank.org/PovcalNet/jsp/index.jsp and Ifs database	2006/07	No
SeriesIncBelow10D%Povcal	SocioPolitical	Percent of population below poverty line of $10 per day PPP	PovCalNet, World Bank available at http://iresearch.worldbank.org/PovcalNet/jsp/index.jsp and Ifs database	2017/06/20	No
SeriesIncBelow1D%PovcalRur	SocioPolitical	Percent of population living on less than $1 per day, rural	PovCalNet, World Bank available at http://iresearch.worldbank.org/PovcalNet/jsp/index.jsp and Ifs database	2007/09	No
SeriesIncBelow1D%PovcalTot	SocioPolitical	Percent of population living on less than $1 per day, total	PovCalNet, World Bank available at http://iresearch.worldbank.org/PovcalNet/jsp/index.jsp and Ifs database	2006/07	No
SeriesIncBelow1D%PovCalTotExt	SocioPolitical	Percent of population living on less than $1 per day, total extended/filled	PovCalNet, World Bank available at http://iresearch.worldbank.org/PovcalNet/jsp/index.jsp and Ifs database	2017/06/20	No
SeriesIncBelow1D%PovcalUrb	SocioPolitical	Percent of population living on less than $1 per day, urban	PovCalNet, World Bank available at http://iresearch.worldbank.org/PovcalNet/jsp/index.jsp and Ifs database	2007/09	No
SeriesIncBelow1D25c%Blend	SocioPolitical	Population below poverty line of $1.25 per day PPP (2005); blend of Povcalnet and WDI sources	PovcalNet and WDI	2017/06/20	No
SeriesIncBelow1D25c%Povcal	SocioPolitical	Percentage of population living on under $1.25 a day; from PovcalNet	PovcalNet	2017/06/20	No
SeriesIncBelow2Dollar%Blend	SocioPolitical	Population below poverty line of $2 per day PPP (2005); blend of Povcalnet and WDI sources	PovcalNet and WDI	2017/06/20	No
SeriesIncBelow2Dollar%Povcal	SocioPolitical	Percentage of population living on under $2 a day; from PovcalNet	PovcalNet	2017/06/20	No
SeriesPovGap$10perDayPovcal	SocioPolitical	Poverty gap at $10 per day (PPP), percent	PovCalNet, World Bank available at http://iresearch.worldbank.org/PovcalNet/jsp/index.jsp and Ifs database	2017/06/20	No
SeriesPovGap$1PovCalRur	SocioPolitical	Poverty gap relative to income of $1 per day, rural	PovCalNet, World Bank available at http://iresearch.worldbank.org/PovcalNet/jsp/index.jsp and Ifs database	2006/06	No
SeriesPovGap$1PovCalTot	SocioPolitical	Poverty gap relative to income of $1 per day, total	PovCalNet, World Bank available at http://iresearch.worldbank.org/PovcalNet/jsp/index.jsp and Ifs database	2006/06	No
SeriesPovGap$1PovCalTotExt	SocioPolitical	Poverty gap relative to income of $1 per day, total, extended table	PovCalNet, World Bank available at http://iresearch.worldbank.org/PovcalNet/jsp/index.jsp and Ifs database	2017/06/20	No
SeriesPovGap$1PovCalUrb	SocioPolitical	Poverty gap relative to income of $1 per day, urban	PovCalNet, World Bank available at http://iresearch.worldbank.org/PovcalNet/jsp/index.jsp and Ifs database	2006/06	No

Instructions on Pulling PovCalNet

1. Access PovCalNet at: http://iresearch.worldbank.org/PovcalNet/povOnDemand.aspx
2. Select all countries to be imported. In the next page input the poverty line which you would like to find data for. Select all years to be displayed. Select flat table for the output option. 
3. Copy the table that is created and paste into an Excel file. 
4. Clean the data. Many years have odd formats with decimal places and following points, delete these. Any states that are concluded with Urban or Rural should be deleted. 
5. Import into IFs with a single import page. Select country, years, and the correct column with the data that is being imported. Either Poverty Gap (%), Headcount (%), or Gini (%).
6. For poverty gap and headcount data the above steps will have to be repeated in order to get correct data for varying poverty lines. Gini coefficient data can be collected from any of these data sets. 
7. Repeat steps until all data is acquired.