Description Usage Arguments Value Author(s) References See Also Examples
Computes the measure of affluence in subpopulation analogous to the poverty index of Chakravarty(1983).
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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: |
r |
elements of the sum in the index formula |
r.cha |
the value of index |
Alicja Wolny-Dominiak, Anna Saczewska-Piotrowska
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).
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