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Number of income/consumption surveys in the past decade available via the World Bank

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Number of income/consumption surveys in the past decade available via the World Bank
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The number of income or consumption surveys available in the past decade. Each decade comprises the current year and the nine years before.
Source
World Bank Poverty and Inequality Platform (2024) – with major processing by Our World in Data
Last updated
October 7, 2024
Next expected update
April 2025
Date range
1963–2024
Unit
surveys

Sources and processing

This data is based on the following sources

The Poverty and Inequality Platform (PIP) is an interactive computational tool that offers users quick access to the World Bank’s estimates of poverty, inequality, and shared prosperity. PIP provides a comprehensive view of global, regional, and country-level trends for 170 economies around the world.

Retrieved on
October 7, 2024
Retrieved from
https://pip.worldbank.org
Citation
This is the citation of the original data obtained from the source, prior to any processing or adaptation by Our World in Data. To cite data downloaded from this page, please use the suggested citation given in Reuse This Work below.
World Bank (2024). Poverty and Inequality Platform (version 20240627_2017 and 20240627_2011) [Data set]. World Bank Group. https://pip.worldbank.org/.

The Poverty and Inequality Platform: Percentiles database reports 100 points ranked according to the consumption or income distributions for country-year survey data available in the World Bank’s Poverty and Inequality Platform (PIP). There are, as of September 19, 2024, a total of 2,456 country-survey-year data points, which include 2,274 distributions based on microdata, binned data, or imputed/synthetic data, and 182 based on grouped data. For the grouped data, the percentiles are derived by fitting a parametric Lorenz distribution following Datt (1998). For ease of communication, all distributions are referred to as survey data henceforth, and the welfare variable is referred to as income.

We modified the original files available in World Bank's Databank to include distributions from regions with data available in PIP's API.

Retrieved on
October 7, 2024
Retrieved from
https://datacatalog.worldbank.org/search/dataset/0063646/_poverty_and_inequality_platform_pip_percentiles
Citation
This is the citation of the original data obtained from the source, prior to any processing or adaptation by Our World in Data. To cite data downloaded from this page, please use the suggested citation given in Reuse This Work below.
    

  • World Bank (2024). Poverty and Inequality Platform: percentiles [Data set]. World Bank Group. https://pip.worldbank.org/.
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  • World Bank (2024). Poverty and Inequality Platform (version 20240627_2017 and 20240627_2011) [Data set]. World Bank Group. https://pip.worldbank.org/.
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Notes on our processing step for this indicator

For a small number of country-year observations, the World Bank PIP data contains two estimates: one based on income data and one based on consumption data. In these cases we keep only the consumption estimate in order to obtain a single series for each country. This means the indicator is estimating the number of years at least one survey was conducted in the past decade, rather than the number of surveys.

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“Data Page: Number of income/consumption surveys in the past decade available via the World Bank”, part of the following publication: Joe Hasell, Max Roser, Esteban Ortiz-Ospina and Pablo Arriagada (2022) - “Poverty”. Data adapted from World Bank Poverty and Inequality Platform. Retrieved from https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/data-deprivation-poverty-surveys-per-decade [online resource]
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World Bank Poverty and Inequality Platform (2024) – with major processing by Our World in Data

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World Bank Poverty and Inequality Platform (2024) – with major processing by Our World in Data. “Number of income/consumption surveys in the past decade available via the World Bank – World Bank” [dataset]. World Bank Poverty and Inequality Platform, “World Bank Poverty and Inequality Platform (PIP) 20240627_2017, 20240627_2011”; World Bank Poverty and Inequality Platform, “World Bank Poverty and Inequality Platform (PIP): Percentiles Version 12” [original data]. Retrieved October 18, 2024 from https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/data-deprivation-poverty-surveys-per-decade