This repository contains the database "The Global Multidimensional Poverty Index: Harmonised Level Estimates and their Changes over Time" version 3 released in 2023. Moreover, the repository also provides the computer scripts to clean the underlying micro data and construct the relevant deprivation indicators for replication purposes. Please note that these computer scripts (Stata do-files) may contain more information than used for the production of this Database.

Both the Database itself and the computer scripts are shared under a permissive Creative Commons license (CC-BY 4.0) and thus are open access. Essentially, all the results from the Database and the computer scripts produced by OPHI authors are free for you to take and use — no permission is required. You just need to provide credit to the OPHI authors by referencing the methodological note shown below and additional documentation as needed.

For the license deed, see https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.en. By downloading the Database and the computer scripts the user accepts the license terms.
 
For further documentation of this Database see in particular:

1. Suppa and Kanagaratnam (2023) who provide a general overview about computations, production and structure of the database files.

2. Alkire, Kanagaratnam and Suppa (2023) who provide further details on country specific decisions applied in the computer scripts.

3. Suppa (2023), who documents the Stata package -mpitb-, which is used for the estimation this database. The package is publicly available at the statistical software component (SSC) archive and on at gitlab.

References

Alkire, S., Kanagaratnam, U., and Suppa, N. (2023). A methodological note on the global Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) 2023 changes over time results for 84 countries. OPHI MPI Methodological Note 57, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative, University of Oxford.

Suppa, N. and Kanagaratnam, U. (2023). The Global Multidimensional Poverty Index: Harmonised level estimates and their changes over time. OPHI Research in Progress 66a, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), University of Oxford. Submitted to Scientific Data.

Suppa, N. (2023). mpitb: A toolbox for multidimensional poverty indices. Stata Journal, vol. 23 (3), pp. 625–657, doi:https://doi.org/10.1177/1536867X231195286.


