Atlas AI’s Spending layer estimates Consumption Expenditure, a measure of how much households spend on the goods and services they consume. The term Consumption Expenditure is redundant because consumption indicates the volume of goods and services while expenditure attaches a monetary ($) value to that consumption. A simpler way to capture this idea is to say “spending”.
The Spending concept is one good way to measure economic well-being. It reflects what people need to spend money on for basic needs and services, as well as what they choose to spend money on for discretionary activities and goods. To make comparisons and calculations easier, we normalize this as household spending per person, per day.
This data is available in a single version in raster format and is updated annually for several geographic regions. Yearly and regional coverage for the current version is:
In addition to spending estimates, this dataset includes estimates of the population living below three poverty thresholds (determined by mean daily household spending at the pixel level, where the pixel value is the mean of the log-normally distributed Spending values of all households in that pixel).
The three poverty thresholds are:
For details on methods, input data sources, validation, and background citations, please consult:
https://docs.atlasai.co/economic%20well-being/spending/
This data is offered under a restricted license. Please see resource constraints section below for terms and conditions.
Supplemental Information:
Unit of measure: PPP dollars per day (Spending) or people (Poverty Thresholds)
Flags (including missing value):
- No-data value: 1.79769e+308 (Spending) or 3.40282e+38 (Poverty Thresholds)
Citation:
Publications, books, articles, blogs, conference papers, reports or other derivative works employing data obtained from Atlas AI should cite the source and the dataset(s) as indicated below:
Atlas AI (year dataset accessed) "Dataset name (dataset version)”
e.g. Atlas AI (2021) "Spending, v.2021”
Contact points:
Resource Contact: Vivek Sakhrani
Metadata Contact: FAO-Data
Resource constraints:
The use of this dataset is restricted. The Atlas AI dataset is distributed to authorized users within the Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN. FAO grants a license to download, use and print the materials contained in the Atlas AI dataset solely for non-commercial purposes and in accordance with the conditions specified in the data license agreement. Sharing the dataset in raw or aggregated form without express prior consent from AtlasAI is not allowed.
For any further information, please contact FAO-Data at fao-data@fao.org.
Online resources:
Dataset documentation, default symbology, and code samples
