Table 1.

Description of Data Sets

				Households (HHs) living on less than
				$1.08 per person per day		$2.16 per person per day
Country	Source	Year	Avg. monthly consumption per capita (In PPP$)	Number surveyed	Percent of total surveyed HHs	Number surveyed	Percent of total surveyed HHs
Cote d’Ivoire	LSMS	1988	664.13	375	14%	1,411	49%
Guatemala	GFHS	1995	301.92	469	18%	910	34%
India-Hyderabad	Banerjee-Duflo-Glennerster	2005	71.61	106	7%	1,030	56%
India-Udaipur	Banerjee-Deaton-Duflo	2004	43.12	482	47%	883	86%
Indonesia	IFLS	2000	142.84	320	4%	2,106	26%
Mexico	MxFLS	2002	167.97	959	15%	2,698	39%
Nicaragua	LSMS	2001	117.34	333	6%	1,322	28%
Pakistan	LSMS	1991	48.01	1,573	40%	3,632	83%
Panama	LSMS	1997	359.73	123	2%	439	6%
Papua New Guinea	LSMS	1996	133.38	185	15%	485	38%
Peru	LSMS	1994	151.88	297	7%	821	20%
South Africa	LSMS	1993	291.33	413	5%	1,641	19%
Tanzania	LSMS	1993	50.85	1,184	35%	2,941	73%
Timor Leste	LSMS	2001	64.42	662	15%	2,426	51%

Sources: The Mexican Family Life Survey is documented in Rubalcava and Teruel (2004) and available at 〈http://www.radix.uia.mx/ennvih/〉. The LSMS are available from the World Bank LSMS project page. The IFLS and GFLS are available from the RAND FLS page 〈http://www.rand.org/labor/FLS/〉. The Udaipur data is available from 〈www.povertyactionlab.org/data〉. The Hyderabad data is forthcoming on the same page.

Notes: To compute the $1.08 and $2.16 poverty line for the countries in our sample, we use the 1993 consumption exchange rate provided by the World Bank (available at 〈http://iresearch.worldbank.org/PovcalNet/jsp/index.jsp〉) multiplied by the ratio of the country’s Consumer Price Index to the U.S. Consumer Price Index between 1993 and the year the survey was carried out. To compute average consumption per capita and the proportion of households in poverty, observations are weighted using (survey weight * household size).