Materials on Data Management and Analysis
Presentation: Calculating Poverty Rates
This video shows how to calculate a poverty rate using the PPI.
Guide to Targeting
Targeting beneficiaries is one of the key uses of the PPI. This guide provides specific instruction on how to use the tool in this way and highlights important considerations.
Guide to Segmentation
This guide to segmentation explores the many ways that the PPI can be used in market analysis to gain better insights into the needs, characteristics and behaviors of your beneficiaries.
Market Segmentation at the Bottom of the Pyramid
Additional resources on segmentation include this Video on Segmentation Analysis and Course Intro from an +Acumen course on market segmentation at the bottom of the pyramid, as well as this case study of how Friendship Bridge, a MFI based in Guatemala, used data from the PPI to segment its market and build customer personas.
Free Course: Designing and Running Randomized Evaluations
This twelve-week course is offered as part of the MITx MicroMasters program in Data, Economics, and Development Policy (DEDP). The course provides step-by-step training on how to design and conduct a randomized controlled trial (RCT), including the key components of a well-designed RCT, insights on how to implement your RCT in the field (from questionnaire design to data collection and management), and common practices to ensure research transparency. No previous economics or statistics background is required. However, economic and statistics concepts and vocabulary are used and some familiarity is advised.
The PPI is featured in section 3, session 13 of the course, "Measuring Welfare and Consumption." The session is led by Dean Karlan, Founder of Innovations for Poverty Action and Professor of Economics at Yale University.
Enroll on the edX website for the full 12-week course
Guide to Transitioning to an Updated PPI
It is important to transition to an updated PPI when it becomes available. This guide explains how to make the switch and compare results from one version to the next.
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Guide to Benchmarking Poverty Data
This guide demonstrates ways to benchmark your PPI results to local and national poverty rates.
Checklist: Ensuring data integrity
Review this checklist for some best practices in ensuring data integrity.
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Guide to Collecting PPI Data Through TaroWorks
If you are a user of TaroWorks, following this simple guide will help you get the most out of your PPI data.
Poverty Rates by Country Reference Spreadsheet
This document compiles poverty rates for all countries for which a PPI is available.
Presentation: Using PivotTables in Microsoft® Excel
This presentation is a short tutorial on using PivotTables in Excel to analyze PPI data.
Download Sample PPI Data (Excel)
PPI Data Intake Tools
Free and commercial intake tools for the PPI can be found on our webpage Data Collection Tools.
