r.cha.sub: Concave measure of affluence in subpopulation

In affluenceIndex: Affluence (Richness) Indices

Concave measure of affluence in subpopulation

Description

Computes the measure of affluence in subpopulation analogous to the poverty index of Chakravarty(1983).

Usage

r.cha.sub(x.sub, x, weight.sub, weight, k, beta)

Arguments

x	income vector of subpopulation
x.sub	income vector of population
weight.sub	weight vector of subpopulation
weight	weight vector of population
k	multiple of the median income
beta	parameter of the index: beta > 0

Value

r	elements of the sum in the index formula
r.cha	the value of index

Author(s)

Alicja Wolny-Dominiak, Anna Saczewska-Piotrowska

References

1. Chakravarty S.R. (1983) A new index of poverty. Mathematical Social Sciences, 6, pp. 307-313.
2. Peichl A., Schaefer T., Scheicher C. (2008) Measuring richness and poverty - A micro data application to Europe and Germany. IZA Discussion Paper No. 3790, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA).

See Also

r.cha

Examples

data(affluence)
r.cha(affluence$income, weight = NULL, 2, 2)

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