rent.burden: Define rent burden of households.

Description Usage Arguments Value Examples

View source: R/rent.burden.R

Description

Households are said to be rent-burdened if their rent is more than 30 of household income. This function cuts the variable GRPIP in the housing data, which is gross rent as a percentage of household income, into bins for rent below 30

Usage

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rent.burden(house)

Arguments

house

a data frame of PUMS housing data

Value

factor column with levels of rent burden for households

Examples

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wa.house16$Rent.Burden <- rent.burden(wa.house16)
group.count(wa.house16, 'Rent.Burden', drop.na.group=TRUE)

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