laeken (version 0.5.3)

arpt: At-risk-of-poverty threshold

Description

Estimate the at-risk-of-poverty threshold. The standard definition is to use 60% of the weighted median equivalized disposable income.

Usage

arpt(
  inc,
  weights = NULL,
  sort = NULL,
  years = NULL,
  data = NULL,
  p = 0.6,
  na.rm = FALSE
)

Value

A numeric vector containing the value(s) of the at-risk-of-poverty threshold is returned.

Arguments

inc

either a numeric vector giving the equivalized disposable income, or (if data is not NULL) a character string, an integer or a logical vector specifying the corresponding column of data.

weights

optional; either a numeric vector giving the personal sample weights, or (if data is not NULL) a character string, an integer or a logical vector specifying the corresponding column of data.

sort

optional; either a numeric vector giving the personal IDs to be used as tie-breakers for sorting, or (if data is not NULL) a character string, an integer or a logical vector specifying the corresponding column of data.

years

optional; either a numeric vector giving the different years of the survey, or (if data is not NULL) a character string, an integer or a logical vector specifying the corresponding column of data. If supplied, values are computed for each year.

data

an optional data.frame.

p

a numeric vector of values in \([0,1]\) giving the percentages of the weighted median to be used for the at-risk-of-poverty threshold.

na.rm

a logical indicating whether missing values should be removed.

Author

Andreas Alfons

Details

The implementation strictly follows the Eurostat definition.

References

Working group on Statistics on Income and Living Conditions (2004) Common cross-sectional EU indicators based on EU-SILC; the gender pay gap. EU-SILC 131-rev/04, Eurostat.

See Also

arpr, incMedian, weightedMedian

Examples

data(eusilc)
arpt("eqIncome", weights = "rb050", data = eusilc)