ppiZAF2009 {ppitables}

Poverty Probability Index (PPI) lookup table for South Africa

Description

Poverty Probability Index (PPI) lookup table for South Africa

Usage

ppiZAF2009

Format

A data frame with 8 columns and 101 rows:

score

PPI score

nl100

National poverty line (100%)

nlFood

Food poverty line

extreme

USAID extreme poverty

nu100

National upper poverty line (100%)

ppp125

Below $1.25 per day purchasing power parity (2005)

ppp250

Below $2.50 per day purchasing power parity (2005)

ppp400

Below $4.00 per day purchasing power parity (2005)

Source

https://www.povertyindex.org

Examples

  # Access South Africa PPI table
  ppiZAF2009

  # Given a specific PPI score (from 0 - 100), get the row of poverty
  # probabilities from PPI table it corresponds to
  ppiScore <- 50
  ppiZAF2009[ppiZAF2009$score == ppiScore, ]

  # Use subset() function to get the row of poverty probabilities corresponding
  # to specific PPI score
  ppiScore <- 50
  subset(ppiZAF2009, score == ppiScore)

  # Given a specific PPI score (from 0 - 100), get a poverty probability
  # based on a specific poverty definition. In this example, the national
  # poverty line definition
  ppiScore <- 50
  ppiZAF2009[ppiZAF2009$score == ppiScore, "nl100"]