r.cha.sub {affluenceIndex}

Concave measure of affluence in subpopulation

Description

Computes the measure of affluence in subpopulation analogous to the poverty index of Chakravarty(1983).

Usage

r.cha.sub(x.sub, x, weight.sub, weight, k, beta)

Arguments

x

income vector of subpopulation

x.sub

income vector of population

weight.sub

weight vector of subpopulation

weight

weight vector of population

k

multiple of the median income

beta

parameter of the index: beta > 0

Value

r

elements of the sum in the index formula

r.cha

the value of index

Author(s)

Alicja Wolny-Dominiak, Anna Saczewska-Piotrowska

References

1. Chakravarty S.R. (1983) A new index of poverty. Mathematical Social Sciences, 6, pp. 307-313.
2. Peichl A., Schaefer T., Scheicher C. (2008) Measuring richness and poverty - A micro data application to Europe and Germany. IZA Discussion Paper No. 3790, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA).

See Also

r.cha

Examples

data(affluence)
r.cha(affluence$income, weight = NULL, 2, 2)