Description Usage Arguments Details Value Author(s) References See Also Examples
Estimates the poverty rate which is defined as the share of people with an equivalised disposable income below the at-risk-of-poverty threshold.
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dataset |
a data.frame containing the variables. |
ipuc |
a character string indicating the variable name of the income per unit of consumption. Default is "ipuc". |
hhcsw |
a character string indicating the variable name of the household cross-sectional weight. Default is "DB090". |
hhsize |
a character string indicating the variable name of the household size. Default is "HX040". |
arpt.value |
the at-risk-of-poverty threshold to be used (see arpt). Default is NULL which calculates arpt with default parameters. |
ci |
a scalar or vector containing the confidence level(s) of the required interval(s). Default does not calculate the confidence interval. |
rep |
a number to make the confidence interval using boostrap technique. |
verbose |
logical; if TRUE the confidence interval is plotted. |
The equivalised disposable income is calculated using the standard equivalence scale (called the modified OECD scale) recommended by Eurostat. The parametric scale of Buhmann et al. (1988) can also be used. The default is the modified OECD scale (see setupDataset).
The value of the at-risk-of-poverty rate.
A. Berihuete, C.D. Ramos and M.A. Sordo
B. Buhmann et al. (1988) Equivalence scales, well-being, inequality and poverty: sensitivity estimates across ten countries using the Luxembourg Income Study (LIS) database, Review of Income and Wealth, 34, 115–142.
http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php/Glossary:At-risk-of-poverty_rate
arpt, setupDataset
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