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Measuring the Effectiveness of Social Protection

Measuring the Effectiveness of Social Protection: Concepts and Applications provides the conceptual and analytical framework for assessing social protection (SP) programs, as well as provides a practical guide for users seeking to conduct analysis, particularly using the World Bank's Software Platform for Automated Economic Analysis (ADePT). The book provides a comprehensive unique resource to tie together social policy theory, concepts and practical analytical techniques. The book content is targeted at policymakers and practitioners worldwide seeking to improve the outcomes of their social protection policies. It suggests advanced methods and a new rapid analysis instrumental for technical experts working on quantitative SP analysis for their ministry, national statistics offices, think tanks, universities, or development organizations. The book aims to equip users with different statistical background and SP knowledge to independently conduct SP analysis and prepare a standardized set of tables and graphs to conduct different types of SP performance analysis, ranging from benchmarking SP performance within and across countries, simulating the performance of alternative reform options, and assessing the viability of proposed programs. Download full text in PDF from OpenKnowledge. June 2018. (ISBN: 978-1-4648-1090-9)

Measuring Gender Equality

Gender equality is a core development objective in its own right and also smart development policy and business practice. No society can develop sustainably without giving men and women equal power to shape their own lives and contribute to their families, communities, and countries. And yet, critical gender gaps continue to exist in all countries and across multiple dimensions. The gender module of the World Bank's ADePT software platform produces a comprehensive set of tables and graphs using household surveys to help diagnose and analyze the prevailing gender inequalities at the country level and over time. This book provides a step-by-step guide to the use of the ADePT software and an introduction to its basic economic concepts and econometric methods. The module is organized around the framework proposed by the World Development Report 2012: Gender Equality and Development. It covers gender differences in outcomes in three primary dimensions of gender equality: human capital (or endowments), economic opportunities, and voice and agency. Particular focus is given to the analysis and decomposition techniques that allow for further exploring of gender gaps in economic opportunities. Download full text in PDF from OpenKnowledge. April 2017. (ISBN: 978-1-4648-0775-6)

Key Labor Market Indicators: Analysis with Household Survey Data

Key Labor Market Indicators: Analysis with Household Survey Data is an introduction to labor market indicator analysis and a guide for analyzing household survey data using the ADePT ILO (International Labour Organization) Labor Market Indicators Module. The analytical framework and approach taken up in this book are based on the ILO's Key Indicators of the Labour Market (KILM). KILM indicators provide a strong basis on which to address key questions related to productive employment and decent work. The ADePT ILO Labor Market Indicators Module is a powerful tool for producing and analyzing KILM indicators using household survey data. The software allows researchers and practitioners to automate data production, to minimize data production errors, and to quickly produce a wide range of labor market data from labor force surveys or other household surveys that contain labor market information. Download full text in PDF from ILO. October 2016. (ISBN: 978-1-4648-0784-8)

Simulating Distributional Impacts of Macro-dynamics : Theory and Practical Applications

Simulating Distributional Impacts of Macro-dynamics: Theory and Practical Applications is a comprehensive guide for analyzing and understanding the effects of macroeconomic shocks on income and consumption distribution, as well as using the ADePT Simulation Module. Since real-time micro data is rarely available, the Simulation Module (part of the ADePT economic analysis software) takes advantage of historical household surveys to estimate how current or proposed macro changes might impact household and individuals welfare. Using examples from different economic and social contexts, the book explains macro-micro linkages in an easy and intuitive way. After developing a sound theoretical foundation, readers are then shown how to explore their own scenarios using the Simulation Module. Step-by-step instructions illustrate data entry and show how to make adjustments using the Module's options. Exercises present how different sections of the simulation process operate independently. This book will be a valuable reference for analysts needing to evaluate the potential impact of structural reforms and to generate projections for hypothetical scenarios. Results created by the Simulation Module will be helpful in informing governmental policymaking. Download full text in PDF from the Open Knowledge Repository. September 2014. (ISBN: 978-1-4648-0384-0)

Analyzing Food Security Using Household Survey Data

This book describes Food Security Module of ADePT (stand-alone software available for free downloading). The software was developed to produce a suite of indicators necessary to describe food insecurity in all its dimensions, based on food consumption data collected in household surveys. These indicators, derived at the national and subnational levels, include the consumption of calories and macronutrients, the availability of micronutrients and amino acids, the distribution of calories and the proportion of people undernourished. The book embodies decades of experience in analyzing food security and focuses on the theory, methodology, and analysis of these indicators. Download full text in PDF from the Open Knowledge Repository. April 2014. (ISBN: 978-1-4648-0133-4)

ADePT User Guide

ADePT software enables users to analyze microdata—from sources such as household surveys—and generate print-ready, standardized tables and charts. It can also be used to simulate the impact of economic shocks, farm subsidies, cash transfers and other policy instruments on poverty, inequality and labor. The software automates the analysis, helps minimize human errors and encourages development of new economic analysis methods. ADePT supports datasets in Stata®, SPSS® and tab-delimited text formats. ADePT incorporates Numerics by Stata® (installed with ADePT) as its computational engine. Download full-text in PDF from this site. Mar 2013.

A Unified Approach to Measuring Poverty and Inequality

A Unified Approach to Measuring Poverty and Inequality: Theory and Practice is an introduction to the theory and practice of measuring poverty and inequality, as well as a user's guide for analyzing income or consumption distribution for any standard household dataset using the World Bank's ADePT software. The approach taken here considers income standards as building blocks for basic measurement, then uses them to construct inequality and poverty measures. This unified approach provides advantages in interpreting and contrasting the measures and in understanding the way measures vary over time and space. Click on book cover to read it on-line. Or proceed to full-text download in PDF from the e-Library. Mar 2013. (ISBN: 978-0-8213-8461-9)

Health Equity and Financial Protection

ADePT Health is a free-standing computer program that allows users to produce quickly - and with the minimal risk of errors - most tables that have become standard in applied health and equity analysis. ADePT produces summary statistics and charts that allow inequalities to be compared across countries and over time. This manual explains the methods ADePT uses, how to prepare data for it, how to navigate the ADePT interface to generate the desired tables and charts, and how to interpret them. Click on book cover to read it on-line. Or proceed to full-text download in PDF from the World Bank Documents & Reports site. Alternatively full-text download in PDF is available from the Open Knowledge Repository May 2011. (ISBN: 978-0-8213-8459-6)

Assessing Sector Performance and Inequality in Education

The objective of the manual is to assist education analysts and policy practitioners in their assesmment of education sector performance, internal efficiency, finance, and equity. It is a technical and analytical resource that takes full advantage of ADePT Education, a software tool that allows for the calculation of education indicators from micro-level data. It provides technical definitions of more than forty indicators and step-by-step instructions for the preparation and analysis of indicators of internal efficiency and inequality. It also assists users in the interpretation of results, the prioritization of policy issues, and in the generation of tables and graphs that can be used to bolster their own analysis. Click on book cover to read it on-line. Or proceed to full-text download in PDF from the open knowledge repository. July 2010. (ISBN: 978-0-8213-8458-9)

Poverty and Inequality

Poverty and Inequality module.

Social Protection

ADePT SP examines how the beneficiaries and/or benefits of social protection programs are distributed across quintiles, deciles or other population groups. The software performs sensitivity analysis with different consumption counterfactuals; generates estimates with correct standard errors; and produces statistics that allow comparisons between survey and administrative data. It can also be used to simulate the distributional impact of new/restructured programs.

Examples

• Using example dataset with ADePT Social Protection Module
• adept_blg.dta Input Data (Stata 9.2 dataset format)
• project_sp.ini

Output reports

• Output of ADePT Social Protection module, pdf
• Output of ADePT Social Protection module, xls

Labor

ADePT Labor is an integrated set of programs that produces tables and charts for the analysis of labor markets mainly in low- and middle-income countries.

The program allows to carry out standard labor analysis and the role of jobs and employment in transmitting the benefits of growth to the poor. ADePT Labor covers: (a) Labor market performance and structure; (b) Inequalities in the labor market; (c) poverty and labor markets (d) disadvantaged groups in the labor market. Each of these sub-themes is a separate module in ADePT labor, so the analyst can choose to produce all the tables in ADePT labor or just the subset corresponding to each module. Specific definitions of the indicators have been refined based on presentations, training, and pilot studies conducted in several countries including Bangladesh, Brazil, Egypt, Ghana, Jordan, Madagascar, Morocco, and Senegal.

Documentation

• ADEPT Labor Hand-Out

Examples

Input Data (Stata 9.2 dataset format)

• Using example dataset with ADePT Labor Module
• Dataset
• Project file

Output reports

• Output file for ADePT Labor Module, pdf
• Output file for ADePT Labor Module, xls

Gender

ADePT Gender produces tables and graphs using household surveys to help diagnose and analyze gender inequalities. ADePT Gender is organized around the framework proposed by the World Development Report 2012 on Gender Equality and Development.

The Module covers gender differences in outcomes in the three primary dimensions of gender equality: human capital (or endowments), economic opportunities and voice and agency. Outcomes are disaggregated by gender and by population groups such as sex of household head, age groups, place of residence, and income. This diagnostic not only helps to profile a country in terms of gender equality, but also facilitates a better understanding of the gender dimensions of poverty. This should help make mainstreaming gender analysis standard practice in poverty and labor diagnosis.

Examples

Input Data (Stata 9.2 dataset format)

• Using example dataset with ADePT Gender Module
• adept_ex.dta
• gender.adept

Output reports

• Output file for ADePT Gender Module, pdf
• Output file for ADePT Gender Module, xls

Health

ADePT Health allows users to produce quickly and with a minimal risk of errors most tables that have become standard in applied health equity analysis. ADePT's tables are in a standardized format and are based on a set of methods that are widely accepted in the literature. However, ADePT Health also allows considerable flexibility in terms of specific assumptions. Through its standardized tables, ADePT Health facilitates comparisons of health equity over time within and between countries.

ADePT Health uses the methods outlined in Analyzing Health Equity Using Household Survey Data: A Guide to Techniques and Their Implementation (Washington DC, World Bank, 2008) by Owen O'Donnell, Eddy van Doorslaer, Adam Wagstaff and Magnus Lindelow. Copies of the book can be ordered online or downloaded for free from http://www.worldbank.org/analyzinghealthequity, where Powerpoint self-teaching tutorials on health equity methods are ALSO available for download, along with customizable Stata do files for analysts who are comfortable with Stata programming. ADePT Health will appeal to the health equity analyst who wants to focus on data-preparation, interpreting results, and thinking about policy implications, rather than on Stata programming. ADePT Health dramatically reduces the time taken to prepare standard health equity tables, and makes more widely accessible all the methods covered in Analyzing Health Equity.

ADePT's Health Financing module covers:

• Progressivity of health care finance - chapter 16 of Analyzing Health Equity
• Redistributivity of health care finance - chapter 17
• Catastrophic out-of-pocket payments - chapter 18
• Poverty and out-of-pocket payments - chapter 19

ADePT's Health Outcomes module covers:

• Inequalities in health - chapters 5, 7-9 and 13 of Analyzing Health Equity
• Inequity in health utilization - chapter 15
• Benefit incidence analysis - chapter 14

Education

ADePT Education was developed as a joint effort of EdStats and DECRG. The purpose of this new tool is to pull common educational indicators out of microlevel survey data and present it in a print-ready form, facilitating further analysis by researchers. Using ADePT, a researcher can access over 15 predefined tables that present information on over 30 educational indicators. These indicators are disaggregated by such categories as level of education, gender, area of residence (urban/rural), household wealth, and the gender and educational level of household head. Tables are also grouped into categories: school participation, progression, attainment, and education expenditures. ADePT Education also provides 30 graphs on educational attainment and enrollment. ADePT Education Indicator Definitions.

Examples

• Using example dataset with ADePT Education Module
• adept_blg.dta Input Data (Stata 9.2 dataset format)
• adept_education.ini

Output reports

• Output file for ADePT Education Module, pdf
• Output file for ADePT Education Module, xls

Food Security

Since the end of the Second World War, the international community has been focusing on reducing the number and the proportion of people who suffer from hunger. Over time it became clear that no single indicator would provide a comprehensive picture of the food security situation. Rather, a suite of indicators is necessary to describe food insecurity in all its dimensions. The demand for evidence based policies, which brings together providers such as statistical offices and users of food security indicators including policy makers and researchers, has also been increasing. The ADePT-Food Security Module (ADePT-FSM) was developed to produce food security indicators from food consumption data collected in household surveys (HS). These indicators include the consumption of calories and macronutrients, the availability of micronutrients and amino acids, the distribution of calories and the proportion of people undernourished.

ADePT-FSM requires four datasets. Three of them contain data extracted from the original HS files, including household and household members' characteristics, and quantities and monetary values of food commodities consumed by households. The fourth datasets contains calorie and nutrients conversion factors extracted from national/regional Food Composition Tables.

The food security indicators are derived at the national and subnational levels such as by region, area of residence or household heads' characteristics. ADePT-FSM also produces statistics by group of food items and at the food item level. Some National Food Insecurity Reports are available at http://www.fao.org/economic/ess/ess-fs/fscapdev/essfscd/en/

Examples

• Using example dataset with ADePT Food Security Module

Input Data

• All microdata files (Stata format) and ADePT project files in a compressed archive.

Output reports (including micronutrients analysis)

• Output of ADePT Food Security module, pdf
• Output of ADePT Food Security module, xls

Output reports (excluding micronutrients analysis)

• Output of ADePT Food Security module, pdf
• Output of ADePT Food Security module, xls

Agriculture (Crops and Livestock)

ADePT Agriculture was developed to facilitate the computation and production of agricultural statistics and indicators from household and farm survey data. It generates print-ready tables that describe the characteristics of the agricultural sector, and the factors that affect agricultural productivity. ADePT Agriculture is designed for use with household level data, but can be equally used with data from surveys that sample farms rather than households. ADePT Agriculture consists of two modules focusing respectively on crops and livestock.

The tool is intended for use by policy analysts, agricultural ministries staff, NGOs and international organizations and researchers interested in getting a better understanding of the farm household economy. By making it simpler and faster to produce analytical reports, ADePT Agriculture frees up resources for the interpretation of results, and facilitates using data to design evidence based policies and investments. By making the analysis easier and faster for a wider range of users, ADePT Agriculture can also increase the demand for and utilization of new and existing household survey data.

ADePT Agriculture was developed in cooperation with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO).

Crops

The ADePT Agriculture - Crops module employs user provided data to produce information of relevance to key domains of agricultural policy analysis. In particular the module generate tables on farm structures, land use, tenancy arrangement status, by regions and over expenditure and land quintiles. It also generates tables on land quality features, the use of agricultural inputs and services, crop production and income, and constraints to crop production.

Crops module documentation

• ADePT Agriculture (Crops) User Guide
• Crops Quick Start Guide

Examples

• Using example dataset with ADePT Crops Module

Input data

• Crops
• Household
• Plots
• Plots-crops
• ADePT agriculture (crops) example project

Output reports

• Crops Example Output

Livestock

The ADePT Agriculture - Livestock module facilitates the computation and analysis of livestock statistics and indicators from household survey data. Livestock contribute in multiple ways to household's livelihoods, including through the provision of cash income, food, manure, draft power and hauling services, savings and insurance and social status. The Livestock module automates and standardizes the analysis of survey data and the production of analytical tables on the livestock sector. ADePT Agriculture - Livestock generates a set of tables that describe the key characteristics of the livestock sector and its relationship to household livelihoods.

Livestock module documentation

• Livestock User's Guide
• Livestock Quick Start Guide

Examples

• Using example dataset with ADePT Livestock Module

Input data

• Products data
• Household data
• Animals data
• Animal coefficients
• ADePT Agriculture (livestock) example project

Output reports

• Livestock Example Output