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 current version of ADePT accepts individual level data and generates about 30 tables and 5 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. The program also produces a report with basic statistics on all variables and a list of errors, warnings and notes about the variables used in the analysis. While ADePT is operated from within Stata and written in Stata programming language, ADePT itself is Window-based and the user does not need to know Stata to work with the program.
For more information on how to use the program, please refer to the ADePT User's Guide (PDF). You can also watch the presentation on ADePT via B-SPAN video. An example of tables produced using data for Georgia can be downloaded in PDF or XML format.
We believe ADePT could be a valuable tool for the poverty practitioners. However we warn users that ADePT is not a substitute for a good data and good understanding of the economic principles of poverty measurement. ADePT provides limited indications on the quality of the data specified by the user, but this is clearly not a substitute for the careful data cleaning and checking. As with any computer program, the saying “garbage in – garbage out” could be applied to ADePT. The current version of the program has no means of checking how the welfare aggregate has been constructed or what method has been applied to derive the poverty lines. Please read carefully the ADePT User’s Guide. Many questions users have about ADePT can be answered by reading the User's Guide, which also contains references on the relevant literature to help users understand economic methods and techniques used in ADePT. Please also consult PovNet websitefor information on poverty and inequality measurement. 
Installation Instructions: To install ADePT, within Stata type: net install adept, from(http://siteresources.worldbank.org/INTPOVRES/Resources) NOTE: Stata is case-sensitive so you'll need to copy above command "asis" This command will download ADePT to your computer (and you just need to do it once). Once installed, the program is invoked like any other Stata command by typing "adept" in the command window. ADePT uses other user-written programs and it's performance critically depends on having most recent copies of those programs on your computer. Thus, we recommend that users regularly check if any of the components needs to be updated. Once ADePT is running, go th the "About" tab and click on "check for updates", then follow the instructions. See ADePT User's Guide for more information. We would like to ask you to send us an e-mail when you download ADePT. We are constantly updating and improving the program and we will notify known users about updates, features, and new releases of ADePT. Your feedback is very important to us for the development of the future versions of ADePT. Please do not hesitate to send us your suggestions on improvements of our program.
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. Financial support from the World Bank's Research Committee is gratefully acknowledged.
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