Compute poverty and distributional statistics for microdata.
Usage
compute_pip_stats(
welfare,
povline,
population = NULL,
requested_mean = NULL,
popshare = NULL,
default_ppp = 1,
ppp = NULL,
p0 = 0.5,
distribution_type = c("micro", "group", "aggregate", "imputed")
)Arguments
- welfare
numeric: A vector of income or consumption values
- povline
numeric: Poverty line in international dollars
- population
numeric: A vector of population weights, optional, a vector of 1s if not specified.
- requested_mean
numeric: Welfare mean in international dollars
numeric: Share of population for which the corresponding quantile is desired. Default .5 (i.e., weighted median)
- default_ppp
numeric: Default purchasing power parity
- ppp
numeric: PPP requested by user
- p0
numeric: TO be documented
- distribution_type
character: Type of distribution, either micro, group, aggregate or imputed.