shares: Compute expenditure shares for each product and time period

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Compute expenditure shares for each product and time period

Description

Compute expenditure shares for each product and time period

Usage

shares(x, pvar, qvar, pervar, prodID)

Arguments

x	A dataframe containing price, quantity, a time period identifier and a product identifier. It must have column names.
pvar	A character string for the name of the price variable
qvar	A character string for the name of the quantity variable. For elementary indexes a quantity variable is not required for the calculations and you must specify qvar = "".
pervar	A character string for the name of the time variable. This variable must contain integers starting at period 1 and increasing in increments of 1 period. There may be observations on multiple products for each time period.
prodID	A character string for the name of the product identifier

Value

an n by p data frame of expenditure shares

IndexNumR documentation built on Nov. 11, 2023, 1:07 a.m.