md_compute_poverty_stats: Compute Poverty Statistics

In PIP-Technical-Team/wbpip: What the Package Does (One Line, Title Case)

Compute Poverty Statistics

Description

Compute poverty statictics for microdata - replace old md_compute_poverty_stats

Usage

md_compute_poverty_stats(welfare, weight, povline_lcu)

Arguments

welfare	numeric: A vector of income or consumption values
weight	numeric vector with sample weights. Default is 1.
povline_lcu	numeric: Poverty line in Local Currency Unit (LCU).

Details

Given a vector of consumption or income values and their respective weights md_compute_poverty_stats() computes poverty headcount, poverty gap, poverty severity and the watts index.

Value

list

Examples

wbpip:::md_compute_poverty_stats(
  welfare = 1:2000,
  weight = rep(1, 2000),
  povline_lcu = 10
)

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