{
  "short_name": "survey_count",
  "dataset": {
    "channel": "garden",
    "namespace": "wb",
    "short_name": "world_bank_pip",
    "title": "World Bank Poverty and Inequality Platform (PIP)",
    "description": "The Poverty and Inequality Platform (PIP) is an interactive computational tool that offers users quick access to the World Bank\u2019s estimates of poverty, inequality, and shared prosperity. PIP provides a comprehensive view of global, regional, and country-level trends for over 170 economies around the world.",
    "is_public": true,
    "version": "2026-09-22",
    "update_period_days": 180,
    "non_redistributable": false,
    "jsonld": true,
    "owners": [
      "Pablo Arriagada"
    ],
    "source_checksum": "3be009b8560740d3ef5abf5f2d1429e9"
  },
  "primary_key": [
    "country",
    "year"
  ],
  "dimensions": [
    {
      "name": "country",
      "slug": "country"
    },
    {
      "name": "year",
      "slug": "year"
    }
  ],
  "fields": {
    "country": {},
    "year": {},
    "surveys_past_decade": {
      "title": "Number of surveys in the past decade",
      "description_short": "Number of income or consumption surveys available in the past decade. Each decade comprises the current year and the nine years before.",
      "description_key": [
        "<% if welfare_type is defined and welfare_type == \"income\" and (survey_comparability is not defined or survey_comparability == \"No spells\") %>\nThis data comes from the [World Bank\u2019s Poverty and Inequality Platform](https://pip.worldbank.org/), which is based on a large collection of national survey data. Here we only include surveys measuring people\u2019s incomes after taxes and benefits. [Read more](#dod:read-more-income-consumption-pip).\n<%- elif welfare_type is defined and welfare_type == \"consumption\" and (survey_comparability is not defined or survey_comparability == \"No spells\") %>\nThis data comes from the [World Bank\u2019s Poverty and Inequality Platform](https://pip.worldbank.org/), which is based on a large collection of national survey data. Here we only include surveys measuring people\u2019s consumption \u2014 a different but [closely related](#dod:read-more-income-consumption-pip) measure to income.\n<%- else %>\nThis data comes from the [World Bank\u2019s Poverty and Inequality Platform](https://pip.worldbank.org/), which is based on a large collection of national survey data. To achieve wide coverage, it pools data from two kinds of surveys. For high-income countries, the data measures people\u2019s incomes after taxes and benefits. For most low- and middle-income countries, it instead measures their consumption \u2014 a different but [closely related](#dod:read-more-income-consumption-pip) measure.\n<%- endif %>",
        "For a small number of countries and years, the data source provides two estimates: one measuring households' income and one measuring consumption. In these cases we keep only one of the estimates, so this indicator counts the number of years in the past decade with at least one survey, rather than the number of surveys."
      ],
      "origins": [
        {
          "producer": "World Bank Poverty and Inequality Platform",
          "title": "World Bank Poverty and Inequality Platform (PIP)",
          "description": "The Poverty and Inequality Platform (PIP) is an interactive computational tool that offers users quick access to the World Bank\u2019s estimates of poverty, inequality, and shared prosperity. PIP provides a comprehensive view of global, regional, and country-level trends for over 170 economies around the world.",
          "citation_full": "World Bank (2026). Poverty and Inequality Platform (version 20260922_2021 and 20260922_2017) [Data set]. World Bank Group. https://pip.worldbank.org/.",
          "version_producer": "20260922_2021, 20260922_2017",
          "url_main": "https://pip.worldbank.org",
          "date_accessed": "2026-09-22",
          "date_published": "2026-09-22",
          "license": {
            "name": "CC0",
            "url": "https://datacatalog.worldbank.org/search/dataset/0063646"
          }
        }
      ],
      "unit": "surveys",
      "short_unit": "",
      "display": {
        "tolerance": 5,
        "name": "Number of surveys in the past decade",
        "numDecimalPlaces": 0
      },
      "processing_level": "major",
      "presentation": {
        "attribution_short": "World Bank",
        "topic_tags": [
          "Poverty",
          "Economic Inequality",
          "Economic Growth"
        ],
        "faqs": [
          {
            "gdoc_id": "1gGburArxglFdHXeTLotFW4TOOLoeRq5XW6UfAdKtaAw",
            "fragment_id": "<# Poverty lines levels #>\n<% set poverty_line_ipl = [\"215\", \"300\"] %>\n<% set poverty_line_lmic = [\"365\", \"420\"] %>\n<% set poverty_line_umic = [\"685\", \"830\"] %>\n\n<% macro percentiles_thr(decile) -%>\n  <% if decile == \"1\" -%>\n  Poorest decile\n  <%- elif decile == \"2\" -%>\n  2nd decile\n  <%- elif decile == \"3\" -%>\n  3rd decile\n  <%- elif decile in [\"4\", \"5\", \"6\", \"7\", \"8\"] -%>\n  <<decile>>th decile\n  <%- elif decile == \"9\" -%>\n  Richest decile\n  <%- endif -%>\n<% endmacro %>\n\n<% macro percentiles_avg_share(decile) -%>\n  <% if decile == \"1\" -%>\n  Poorest decile\n  <%- elif decile == \"2\" -%>\n  2nd decile\n  <%- elif decile == \"3\" -%>\n  3rd decile\n  <%- elif decile in [\"4\", \"5\", \"6\", \"7\", \"8\", \"9\"] -%>\n  <<decile>>th decile\n  <%- elif decile == \"10\" -%>\n  Richest decile\n  <%- endif -%>\n<% endmacro %>\n<% if poverty_line is defined and poverty_line in poverty_line_ipl %>poverty-international-poverty-line<%- endif %>"
          },
          {
            "gdoc_id": "1gGburArxglFdHXeTLotFW4TOOLoeRq5XW6UfAdKtaAw",
            "fragment_id": "poverty-international-dollars"
          },
          {
            "gdoc_id": "1gGburArxglFdHXeTLotFW4TOOLoeRq5XW6UfAdKtaAw",
            "fragment_id": "poverty-comparability"
          },
          {
            "gdoc_id": "1gGburArxglFdHXeTLotFW4TOOLoeRq5XW6UfAdKtaAw",
            "fragment_id": "poverty-regional-estimates"
          }
        ]
      },
      "description_processing": "For a small number of country-year observations, the World Bank PIP data contains two estimates: one based on income data and one based on consumption data. In these cases we keep only one of the estimates, to strike a balance between maintaining comparability over time and showing as long a time series as possible. This means the indicator is estimating the number of years at least one survey was conducted in the past decade, rather than the number of surveys."
    }
  }
}