ppiPAK2009: Poverty Probability Index (PPI) lookup table for Pakistan

In ppitables: Lookup Tables to Generate Poverty Likelihoods and Rates using the Poverty Probability Index (PPI)

Poverty Probability Index (PPI) lookup table for Pakistan

Description

Poverty Probability Index (PPI) lookup table for Pakistan

Usage

ppiPAK2009

Format

A data frame with 10 columns and 101 rows:

score

PPI score

nl100

National poverty line (100%)

nl50

National poverty line (50%)

nl75

National poverty line (75%)

nl125

National poverty line (125%)

nl200

National poverty line (200%)

extreme

USAID extreme poverty

ppp125

Poorest half below 100 national

ppp250

Below $1.25 per day purchasing power parity (2005)

ppp375

Below $2.50 per day purchasing power parity (2005)

Source

https://www.povertyindex.org

Examples

  # Access Pakistan PPI table
  ppiPAK2009

  # Given a specific PPI score (from 0 - 100), get the row of poverty
  # probabilities from PPI table it corresponds to
  ppiScore <- 50
  ppiPAK2009[ppiPAK2009$score == ppiScore, ]

  # Use subset() function to get the row of poverty probabilities corresponding
  # to specific PPI score
  ppiScore <- 50
  subset(ppiPAK2009, score == ppiScore)

  # Given a specific PPI score (from 0 - 100), get a poverty probability
  # based on a specific poverty definition. In this example, the national
  # poverty line definition
  ppiScore <- 50
  ppiPAK2009[ppiPAK2009$score == ppiScore, "nl100"]

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