World Bank Group poverty and inequality measures for Sierra Leone, generated from analytical reports and national monitoring programs. The data includes internationally comparable global poverty estimates and lines produced by the World Bank's Development Research Group since 1990. The dataset was last updated on 2026-04-28.
Use Cases
- Assessing the extent and causes of poverty based on poverty measures from analytical reports.
- Examining the impact of growth and public policy on inequality using generated inequality measures.
- Reviewing household survey data and measurement methods for poverty monitoring programs.
- Comparing poverty trends over time using internationally comparable estimates produced since 1990.
Strengths
- Data originates from the authoritative World Bank Group and its Development Research Group.
- Includes internationally comparable poverty estimates and lines produced since 1990.
- License is CC-BY-4.0, allowing for broad reuse and sharing.
Limitations
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
- Row count and dataset size are 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 referenced since 1990; specific temporal coverage of the dataset is unknown.
- Freshness
- Last updated 2026-04-28 11:02:35.984996; freshness should be verified.
- Geography
- Sierra Leone