S E D L A C / The Statistics

Poverty estimates using alternative indicators and poverty lines (international poverty lines, a relative poverty line, and poverty based on endowments).

Note: CEDLAS methodology differs from that of WDI basically in the treatment of zero income observations (we do include them in our calculations), and also, for some countries/years in some of the steps to construct household income (e.g. regional prices and implicit rent from own housing). See our Guide and the WDI webpage for details.

4. Inequality

Inequality indicators computed over the distribution of several income variables.
Share of deciles, income ratios, Gini coefficient, Theil index, coefficient of variation, Atkinson index, and the generalized entropy index with different parameters.
Statistics for two bipolarization indices (Wolfson and EGR).

5. Demographics

This section has two files:

Demographics
- Household size, number of children under 12 dependency rates, and mean age by income quintiles.
- Assortative mating estimates.
Regions & Migration
- Distribution of the population by areas (urban-rural) and regions.
- Statistics on migration.

6. Education

This section has four files:

Years of Education
- Educational structure of adults aged 25 to 65.
- Average years of schooling in formal education by gender, area, and income quintiles.
- Gini coefficients for the distribution of years of education.
See this file for country definitions.
Literacy

Literacy rates by age, gender, income quintiles, and areas.
School Attendance
- Gross school attendance rates for children and youngsters aged 3 to 23.
- Enrollment rates by age, gender, area and income quintiles.
- Net enrollment in primary, secondary, and superior education.
- Primary completion rates.
Education Mobility

Educational Mobility Index: 1 minus the proportion of the variance of the school gap that is explained by parental education and income (Andersen, 2001).

7. Employment

This section has three files:

Employment
- Labor force participation.
- Employment and unemployment rates.
- Unemployment duration.
- Structure of employment by gender, age, education, area, region.
- Structure of employment by labor relationship, type of firm and sector.
- Informality by age, gender, education and area.
- Child labor.
Wages and Hours of Work
- Hourly wages, hours of work and labor income by age, gender, education, area, sector and type of work.
- Earnings inequality and wage gaps.
- Coefficients of Mincer equations.
- Conditional gender wage gaps.
Labor Benefits
- Contracts, pensions, health insurance by age, gender, education and area.
- 13th month, holidays, unions.

8. Housing

Ownership, number of rooms, persons per room and quality of the dwelling by income quintiles, education and age of the household head.

See this file for country definitions.

9. Infrastructure

Access to water, electricity, restrooms, sewerage and telephone by area and income quintiles.

See this file for country definitions.

10. Durable Goods and Services

Refrigerator, washing machine, AC, heating, phone, TV, PC, Internet, car, motorcycle, bicycle.

11. Poverty-Alleviation Programs

Households with coverage by income, education and area.
Distribution of participants and benefits.

12. Aggregate Welfare

Also known as distributional-weighted growth rates.
Annual growth rates in four alternative aggregate welfare functions: utilitarist, Sen and two from the family of Atkinson functions.
Welfare functions computed using only information from household surveys, and alternatively taking real per capita GDP from National Accounts as the average income measure.

13. Pro-poor growth

This section has two files:

Pro-Poor Growth Measures
- Ravallion and Chen’s pro-poor growth measures, indicators of progressivity of growth, and poverty equivalent growth rates.
- Estimates with international and national poverty lines.
Growth-Incidence Curves

Annual growth rates in household per capita income by percentiles.