r.fgt.sub: Convex measure of affluence in subpopulation

In affluenceIndex: Affluence (Richness) Indices

Convex measure of affluence in subpopulation

Description

Computes the measure of affluence in subpopulation analogous to the convex version of Foster, Greer and Thorbecke (1984) family of poverty indices.

Usage

r.fgt.sub(x.sub, x, weight.sub, weight, k, alpha)

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
alpha	parameter of the index: alpha > 1

Value

r	values of the sum in the index formula
r.fgt	the value of index

Author(s)

Alicja Wolny-Dominiak, Anna Saczewska-Piotrowska

References

1. Foster J.E., Greer J., Thorbecke E. (1984) A class of decomposable poverty measures. Econometrica, 52, pp. 761-766.
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.fgt

Examples

data(affluence)
affluence$weight <- rep(1, nrow(affluence))
aff.sub <- subset(affluence, education == 2)
r.fgt.sub(aff.sub$income, affluence$income, aff.sub$weight, affluence$weight, 2, 1)

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