md_compute_povline_lcu: Compute poverty line in Local Currency Unit (LCU)

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Compute poverty line in Local Currency Unit (LCU)

Description

Compute the LCU poverty line for microdata.

Usage

md_compute_povline_lcu(
  welfare,
  povline,
  weight,
  popshare,
  requested_mean,
  data_mean
)

Arguments

welfare	numeric: A vector of income or consumption values
povline	numeric: Poverty line in international dollars
popshare	numeric: Share of population for which the corresponding quantile is desired. Default .5 (i.e., weighted median)
requested_mean	numeric: Welfare mean in international dollars
data_mean	numeric: Data mean.

Value

list

Examples

# Load and clean example data
data("md_ABC_2000_income")
df <- wbpip:::md_clean_data(
  md_ABC_2000_income,
  welfare = 'welfare',
  weight = 'weight')$data

# Compute LCU poverty line
res <-  wbpip:::md_compute_povline_lcu(
  df$welfare, df$weight,
  popshare = NULL,
  requested_mean = 5000,
  data_mean = 4000)
str(res)

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