How to estimate poverty with the 2022 Suriname Survey of Living Conditions

NECESSARY INPUTS

5 Survey Data Files 

RT001_weighted_Public.dta
RT002_weighted_Public.dta
RT140_weighted_Public.dta
RT141_weighted_Public.dta
RT142_weighted_Public.dta

3 Supporting Data Files 

06 2017 CPI June 2017 and 2022.sav
2017 Poverty lines.sav
Inflation CPI food and non food 2016 2023.sav

11 SPSS Syntax Files

00 File names and heading 2022.sps
01 Education 2022.sps
02 Social programs 2022.sps
03 Health 2022.sps
04 Personal expenses 2022.sps
05 Food 2022.sps
06 House use value 2022.sps
07 Non food expenses 2022.sps
08 Aggregate 2022.sps
09 Poverty lines 2022.sps
10 gini 2022.sps

CREATE 4 DIRECOTIRES AND COPY THE DATA AND SYNTAX FILES AS INDICATED BY "\{FILES}"

C:\1 Suriname 2022\Analysis\{11 SPSS Syntax Files}
C:\1 Suriname 2022\Data\Final data\{}
C:\1 Suriname 2022\Data\SPSS\{3 Supporting Data Files }
C:\1 Suriname 2022\Data\Stata\{5 Survey Data Files }

RUNNING THE PROGRAMS
Run the syntax files in numerical order from 00 to 10


