ADePT Poverty Version 2.5 (Automated DEC Poverty Tables)

Every year the World Bank produces up to 15 poverty assessments. Almost every poverty assessment entails significant time and resources devoted to the production of a reasonably standard set of tables and graphs with basic poverty and inequality statistics. The ADePT software is designed to simplify and speed-up this work so users can free up resources for other activities, including drawing policy implications from the empirical evidence. It also helps to minimize human errors, and to introduce new techniques and methods of applied economic analysis to a wide audience of practitioners.

The current version of ADePT Poverty accepts both individual- and household-level data and generates about 30 tables and 7 graphs on poverty, inequality, decompositions of poverty changes, poverty profiles by socio-demographic categories, consumption regressions, poverty simulations and sensitivity analysis. More tables and graphs will be added to the program and existing ones will be modified.

ADePT can be used as a tool for sensitivity analysis, data checking, and as an educational tool. The program should also be helpful in the situation of the limited access to the micro data. By producing a standard set of tables and graphs the program allows standardizing the poverty statistics among the countries opening the possibilities for the research on intra-country poverty comparisons.

Documentation and additional information

A short Getting Started with ADePT (PDF) Guide illustrates basic steps of working with ADePT.

For more information on how to use the program, please refer to the ADePT User's Guide (PDF). A version of the User's Guide in French (PDF) is also available.

Users of the previous versions will find a summary of changes and improvements in the New Features in ADePT 2.0 (PDF) and What's New in ADePT 2.5documents.

Watch a ADepPT video presentation - B-SPAN.

An example of tables produced using data for Georgia can be downloaded in PDF or XML format.

The ADePT software is created in the Poverty Team of the Development Research Group, Development Economics Vice Presidency by Michael Lokshin, Senior Economist (lead), Zurab Sajaia, and Sergiy Radyakin. The project was completed under guidance of Martin Ravallion.