IndexNumber-package {IndexNumber}

Index Numbers in Social Sciences

Description

We provide an R tool for teaching in Social Sciences. It allows the computation of index numbers. It is a measure of the evolution of a fixed magnitude for only a product of for several products. It is very useful in Social Sciences. Among others, we obtain simple index numbers (in chain or in serie), index numbers for not only a product or weighted index numbers as the Laspeyres index (Laspeyres, 1864), the Paasche index (Paasche, 1874) or the Fisher index (Lapedes, 1978).

Details

The DESCRIPTION file:

Package:	IndexNumber
Type:	Package
Title:	Index Numbers in Social Sciences
Version:	1.3.2
Date:	2021-03-15
Author:	Alejandro Saavedra-Nieves, Paula Saavedra-Nieves
Maintainer:	Alejandro Saavedra-Nieves <[e-mail]>
Description:	We provide an R tool for teaching in Social Sciences. It allows the computation of index numbers. It is a measure of the evolution of a fixed magnitude for only a product of for several products. It is very useful in Social Sciences. Among others, we obtain simple index numbers (in chain or in serie), index numbers for not only a product or weighted index numbers as the Laspeyres index (Laspeyres, 1864), the Paasche index (Paasche, 1874) or the Fisher index (Lapedes, 1978).
License:	GPL-2
LazyData:	true
RoxygenNote:	7.0.2

Index of help topics:

ActivePeople            Economically active people in Spain from 2002
                        to 2019.
ECResources             Combustibles and energy resources for the main
                        home in Spain from 2006 to 2015.
Food                    Food in Spain from 2006 to 2015.
IndexNumber-package     Index Numbers in Social Sciences
Mortgages               Mortgages constituted on urban properties in
                        Spain from 2003 to 2018.
aggregated.index.number
                        Calculate an aggregate index number
edgeworth.index.number
                        Calculate the Edgeworth index number
fisher.index.number     Calculate the Fisher index number
index.number.chain      Calculate an index number in chain
index.number.serie      Calculate an index number in serie
laspeyres.index.number
                        Calculate the Laspeyres index number
paasche.index.number    Calculate the Paasche index number

Once we have defined a magnitude for a product (of several products), we can analyse how it (they) evolves along the time. Index Numbers model this effect in Social Science. In this sense, several approaches may be considered. We include in this package several options of analysing this problem.

Author(s)

Alejandro Saavedra-Nieves, Paula Saavedra-Nieves

Maintainer: Alejandro Saavedra-Nieves <[e-mail]>

References

- (2004) Consumer Price Index Manual: Theory and Practice. ILO, IMF. CPI Manual OECD, UN, Eurostat, and The World Bank by ILO, Geneva.

Index Number (2008) In: The Concise Encyclopedia of Statistics. Springer, New York, NY. <doi:https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-32833-1>.

Laspeyres, E. (1871) Die Berechnung einer mittleren Waarenpreissteigerung. Jahrb. Natl. Stat. 16, 296–314.

Paasche, H. (1874) Uber die Preisentwicklung der letzten Jahre nach den Hamburger Borsen-notirungen. Jahrb. Natl. Stat. 23, 168–178.

Examples

prices<-c(70,75,77,77,85,90,85,75,77,87,85,90,70,75,77,77,85,90)
index.number.serie(prices,name="Prices",opt.plot=TRUE,opt.summary=TRUE)