arpt {laeken}

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
)

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.

Details

The implementation strictly follows the Eurostat definition.

Value

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

Author(s)

Andreas Alfons

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)