pipr

The pipr package allows R users to compute poverty and inequality indicators for more than 160 countries and regions from the World Bank’s database of household surveys. It does so by accessing the Poverty and Inequality Platform (PIP) API. PIP is a computational tool that allows users to estimate poverty rates for regions, sets of countries or individual countries, over time and at any poverty line.

Installation

pipr 1.5.0 is available on CRAN. Install the released version with:

You can also install the development version from GitHub:

devtools::install_github("worldbank/pipr")

Example

This is a basic example that shows how to retrieve some key poverty and inequity statistics.

Retrieve statistics 

library(dplyr)
library(pipr)

df <- get_stats(country = "ALB")
glimpse(df)

Access data dictionary 

get_aux("dictionary")