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ppicalc: Calculator for Determining Poverty Likelihood Based on the Poverty Probability Index (PPI)

Given Poverty Probability Index (PPI) scores based on the standard 10 questions on household’s characteristics and asset ownership, the likelihood that the household is living below the poverty line can be determined using this package. This package depends on country-specific lookup tables developed for the PPI available via the ppitables package.

Installation

You can install ppicalc from GitHub with:

# install.packages("devtools")
devtools::install_github("ernestguevarra/ppicalc")

Usage

This is a basic example which shows you how to solve a common problem:

## basic example code

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