incMean: Weighted mean income

In laeken: Estimation of Indicators on Social Exclusion and Poverty

Weighted mean income

Description

Compute the weighted mean income.

Usage

incMean(inc, weights = NULL, years = NULL, data = NULL, na.rm = FALSE)

Arguments

inc	either a numeric vector giving the (equivalized disposable) income, or (if data is not NULL) a character string, an integer or a logical vector specifying the corresponding column of data.
weights	optional; either a numeric vector giving the personal sample weights, or (if data is not NULL) a character string, an integer or a logical vector specifying the corresponding column of data.
years	optional; either a numeric vector giving the different years of the survey, or (if data is not NULL) a character string, an integer or a logical vector specifying the corresponding column of data. If supplied, values are computed for each year.
data	an optional data.frame.
na.rm	a logical indicating whether missing values should be removed.

Value

A numeric vector containing the value(s) of the weighted mean income is returned.

Author(s)

Andreas Alfons

See Also

weightedMean

Examples

data(eusilc)
incMean("eqIncome", weights = "rb050", data = eusilc)

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