ppiDOM2010 {ppitables}

Poverty Probability Index (PPI) lookup table for Dominican Republic

Description

Poverty Probability Index (PPI) lookup table for Dominican Republic

Usage

ppiDOM2010

Format

A data frame with 11 columns and 101 rows:

score

PPI score

nl50

National poverty line (50%)

nl75

National poverty line (75%)

nl100

National poverty line (100%)

nl150

National poverty line (150%)

extreme

USAID extreme poverty

nl200

National poverty line (200%)

ppp125

Below $1.25 per day purchasing power parity (2005)

ppp250

Below $2.50 per day purchasing power parity (2005)

ppp375

Below $3.75 per day purchasing power parity (2005)

ppp500

Below $5.00 per day purchasing power parity (2005)

Source

https://www.povertyindex.org

Examples

  # Access Dominican Republic PPI table
  ppiDOM2010

  # Given a specific PPI score (from 0 - 100), get the row of poverty
  # probabilities from PPI table it corresponds to
  ppiScore <- 50
  ppiDOM2010[ppiDOM2010$score == ppiScore, ]

  # Use subset() function to get the row of poverty probabilities corresponding
  # to specific PPI score
  ppiScore <- 50
  subset(ppiDOM2010, score == ppiScore)

  # Given a specific PPI score (from 0 - 100), get a poverty probability
  # based on a specific poverty definition. In this example, the USAID
  # extreme poverty definition
  ppiScore <- 50
  ppiDOM2010[ppiDOM2010$score == ppiScore, "extreme"]