World Bank poverty and inequality measures for New Zealand, generated from analytical reports, national monitoring programs, and the Bank's Development Research Group. The dataset includes internationally comparable poverty estimates and lines produced since 1990. It was last updated on 2026-04-28 and is shared under a CC-BY-4.0 license.
Use Cases
- Assessing the extent and causes of poverty based on World Bank analytical reports
- Examining the impact of economic growth and public policy on inequality using national monitoring data
- Comparing poverty estimates over time using internationally comparable lines produced since 1990
Strengths
- Data is produced by the World Bank's Development Research Group, a leading institution in poverty measurement.
- Includes internationally comparable poverty estimates and lines with a methodology dating back to 1990.
- License is CC-BY-4.0, permitting broad reuse with attribution.
Limitations
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
- Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
- Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
Provenance
- Source
- World Bank Group
- Collection Method
- Generated from analytical reports, national poverty monitoring programs, and the World Bank's Development Research Group.
- Time Range
- Data production methodology dates from 1990; specific temporal coverage is not stated.
- Freshness
- Last updated 2026-04-28 10:12:29.586290; freshness should be verified.
- Geography
- New Zealand