The Poverty and Inequality Mapper Module is a SAS program that combines survey and census data to generate poverty and inequality estimates with standard errors at low levels of aggregation. The program generates such profiles for Atkinson inequality measures, Generalized Entropy class inequality indices, the Gini index, and Foster-Greer-Thorbecke (FGT) poverty measures. Use of the programs requires basic familiarity with SAS.

An accompanying manual provides a guide to the use of the Poverty and Inequality Mapper Module. It summarizes the module’s purpose, identifies the user-defined inputs, describes how to prepare data for use with the program, discusses disk space requirements, and offers sources for further information and support.