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WORLD BANKOPEN KNOWLEDGE

RESOURCES -

ADEPT

05 October 2012

RASHIEL VELARDESOCIAL PROTECTION UNIT, WORLD BANK MANILA


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Automated DEC Poverty Tables

(ADePT)2

www.worldbank.org/adept

automates the production of

tables and charts used in

economic research

frees up resources for other

tasks

minimizes human errors in

producing outputs for analytical

work

generates standard and

comparable tables and results

allows to quickly introduce new

methods of analysis to a wideaudience of researchers and


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ADePT Modules3

ADePT 5.3 has 7

modules, each

generatingcustomized tables

and charts in a

particular area of

economic

research.


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How ADePT works4

ADePT


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Before getting started with

ADePT5

Hardware requirements Minimum 40MB disk space to install

Minimum 512MB RAM to operate

Works with 32- and 64-bit Windows environments

Software requirements Microsoft Windows OS (minimum Windows XP)

! Does not work on MAC OS or Linux OS

MS Excel for Windows to display outputs

Data requirements Micro-level data either household-level or individual level

Data saved in SPSS or Stata format

ADEPT works with or without Stata installed in your computer.

ADEPT works with or without internet connection.


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Before getting started with

ADePT6

Data preparation Do you have micro-level data is it household-level or

individual-level data?

Are your datasets saved in Stata or SPSS format?

Does your data contain the variables needed to runADEPT?

What the variables in your dataset refer to the fieldsrequired in the particular ADEPT module?

Are the variable names standardized (for multipledatasets)?

For the analysis later, Do the outputs look reasonable?

Are they internally consistent? Are they consistent withother sources?


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Installing ADePT7

1. In www.worldbank.org/adept ,

click on

2. Click when pop-up appears.

3. Click when the License Agreement pop-up appears.

4. Click in the next pop-up.

5. When installation is completed, ADePT program will automatically
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ADePT Poverty8

generates a comprehensive set

of tables and graphs required

for the static and dynamic

analysis of poverty and

inequality

produces poverty profiles by

socio-demographic and

geographical locations and

various decompositions ofpoverty changes

estimates consumption

regressions

performs poverty simulations


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ADePT Poverty9

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Using Philippine Data on ADePT

Poverty11

Family Income and Expenditures Survey (FIES)

Household level data on income sources andspending patterns

Main source of poverty estimates for the Philippines

Conducted by NSO every 3 years (2009 latest)

Data contains about 40,000 household records

Regional representation

Data is publicly available in CSPro format

Poverty lines are province- and location-(urban/rural) specific

Generated by NSCB


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Using Philippine Data on ADePT

Poverty13

Familiarity with basic concepts is CRUCIAL !

How are the poverty lines defined?

How is poverty measured in the Philippines? What

is the unit of analysis? What poverty measuresare used? How are they defined and computed?

Are they comparable across time?

How are household data collected? What it their

level of representation? Are they comparable

across time?

Etc, etc

www.nscb.gov.ph/poverty


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ADePT Poverty Hands-on

Exercise14

Using FIES 2009 and 2006, answer the following:

1. What is the share of poor Filipinos living in poverty in 2006 and 2009

(poverty incidence)?

2. What can you say about poverty in rural and urban areas?3. What are the 3 poorest (least poor) regions in the country in 2009 based

on the poverty rate? based on how severe poverty is?

4. In which 3 regions are the poor concentrated the most?

5. What is the overall level of income inequality in the country? What can you

say about income disparities in urban and rural areas?6. Who are the poorest segments of the population in terms of : employment

type, education, main source of income?

7. Was there growth in HH incomes between 2006 and 2009? By how

much? Who benefited the most from this growth?

8. What share of the population live just (20%) above the poverty threshold?


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Exercise15

1. Data and Variables window


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Exercise17

3. Tables and Graphs window


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Exercise18

3. Generate window


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Resources on Poverty Analysis20

ADePT Users Guide

(www.worldbank.org/adept)

Haughton J. and S.R. Khandker, Handbook

on Poverty and Inequality (2009)

Download: http://go.worldbank.org/I0Y1NQB150
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THANK YOU !

To know more about ADePT,

visit

www.worldbank.org/adept

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