Stata client to the Povcalnet API

The povcalnet Stata command allows Stata users to compute poverty and inequality indicators for more than 160 countries and regions the World Bank's database of household surveys. It has the same functionality as the PovcalNet website. PovcalNet is a computational tool that allows users to estimate poverty rates for regions, sets of countries or individual countries, over time and at any poverty line.

PovcalNet is managed jointly by the Data and Research Group in the World Bank's Development Economics Division. It draws heavily upon a strong collaboration with the Poverty and Equity Global Practice, which is responsible for the gathering and harmonization of the underlying survey data.

Installation

From SSC (version 1.0.0)

ssc install povcalnet

From GitHub

Proper installation (Might not be available in your computer due to firewall restriction of your organization. See alternative installation below if this is your case).

We recommend installing the github Stata command by E. F. Haghish

net install github, from("https://haghish.github.io/github/")
github install worldbank/povcalnet

Alternatively you could install the package by typing the followinf line,

net install povcalnet, from("https://raw.githubusercontent.com/worldbank/povcalnet/master/")

Alternative installation from GitHub in case the options above do not work due to firewall restrictions.

1. Click on the green icon "Clone or Download" above.
2. Download the package as zip.
3. Extract the files with extension .ado and .sthlp only, and place them in the directory c:/ado/plus/p
4. type discard in Stata.