eqSS: Equivalized household size
In laeken: Estimation of Indicators on Social Exclusion and Poverty

Description Usage Arguments Value Author(s) References See Also Examples

Compute the equivalized household size according to the modified OECD scale adopted in 1994.

1	eqSS(hid, age, year = NULL, data = NULL)

`hid`	if `data=NULL`, a vector containing the household ID. Otherwise a character string specifying the column of `data` that contains the household ID.
`age`	if `data=NULL`, a vector containing the age of the individuals. Otherwise a character string specifying the column of `data` that contains the age.
`year`	if `data=NULL`, a vector containing the year of the survey. Otherwise a character string specifying the column of `data` that contains the year.
`data`	a `data.frame` containing EU-SILC survey data, or `NULL`.

A numeric vector containing the equivalized household size for every observation in data.

Andreas Alfons

Working group on Statistics on Income and Living Conditions (2004) Common cross-sectional EU indicators based on EU-SILC; the gender pay gap. EU-SILC 131-rev/04, Eurostat.

eqInc

data(eusilc)

# calculate equivalized household size
eqSS <- eqSS("db030", "age", data=eusilc)

# combine with household ID and household size
tmp <- cbind(eusilc[, c("db030", "hsize")], eqSS)

# show the first 8 rows
head(tmp, 8)