Software platform for Automated Economic Analysis

Why ADePT?Each year World Bank produces:

10-15 poverty assessments5-10 Labor market studies10 Education and Health assessmentsGender studiesNutritional StudiesReports on Social protection and Benefit-Incidence

analysis, etc.Reports produced for different countries or years

use similar sets of analytical results (tables/graphs).Significant resources are spent in each report on

production of these results.We recognized a possibility to automate this process.

Automated Economic Analysis Speed-up production of basic (required) resultsFree resources for more meaningful and

interesting tasks.Easily introduce new techniques and methodsMinimize human errorsGenerate standard, comparable results

across the countries/years. Minimize training timeSurveys for ADePT

ADePT: From data to report

Inside ADePT:

User Computational interface kernel (Stata)

ADePTUser micro-level data: DHS, LSMS, LFS, …

Print-ready output

ADePT Labor: Overview of the Labor ForceTable 1.1: broad overview. It will help you:determine if unemployment is a problem to focus on

or if quality of employment (low earnings, etc.) should be focus

the level of child labor and moreAs with all tables, you can see changes over time

Table 1.3: Where employment is located by type of work You can use designation you like: formal/informal;

not just employment type It will also break into ag/non-ag

Table 1.4: Welfare status for each worker type - including median earnings, low earnings rates, inequality of earnings, etc.

Table 1.5a: Shares of workers by sectorTable 1.5b: Share of workers by education (and broken ag/non-

ag)

ADePT Labor: Poverty and Labor MarketHelp you identify where poverty is concentrated

type of workers & sectors

This section uses two ways of calculating outcomes: a) calculate it using individual sector of employment; b) calculate it using the sector of employment of the household head.

The Tables in the Annex are used for follow up once an initial investigation reveals an area of interest:They give a disaggregation of main indicators by

different groups for unemployment, low earnings, child labor, etc.

Accepts individual- and household-level data in Stata and SPSS format. Uses Stata numerical engine for computations.

Minimal data preparation required from the usersExtensive diagnostics of possible problems with the dataADePT is a tool for simulations and sensitivity analysisIntuitive user-friendly interfaceTested on the datesets from more than 50 countries:

LSMS, HBS, DHSUsers of ADePT come from the WB, international

research institutions, universities, and government agencies.

Expected increase in the number of users when new modules are released

ADePT V4.0

ADePT Poverty: Released – June 2007ADePT Labor: Released – November 2007ADePT Gender: Released – November 2008ADePT Social Protection: Released – June 2009ADePT Education: Released – September 2009ADePT Health: Released – December 2009

ADePT Inequality: Planned Release – Spring 2010ADePT Targeting: Planned Release – Summer 2010ADePT PLINES: Development stage ADePT Crisis: Development stage ADePT Nutrition: Development stage

ADePT MAPS: Released – November 2008

ADePT V4.0: The roadmap

ADePT Solutions:ADePT offers users a solution of a particular

problem.Modules of ADePT produce sets of predefined

analytical results (tables, graphs) sufficient to give an answer to a particular question.

Combination of software tools and the substantive contributions from the leading experts in a field.Martin Ravallion (WB) : PovertyAdam Wagstaff (WB) : HealthHarold Alderman (WB) : Nutrition

Two main directions of ADePT: Assessments of the current situationProjections and simulations

ADePT ROI Costs:Zero monetary cost – ADePT is free.Minimal cost in terms of training

Localized versions of ADePT lower this cost even more.

No change in the standard production function for analytical results.

Revenues:Saves at least several weeks of consultant/staff

time per module Allows much faster delivery of the reports ~

timely policies, better relations with a client.

Website: www.worldbank.org/adept