ppiZAF2023 {ppitables}

Poverty Probability Index (PPI) lookup table for South Africa for 2023

Description

Poverty Probability Index (PPI) lookup table for South Africa for 2023

Usage

ppiZAF2023

Format

A data frame with 6 columns and 101 rows:

score

PPI score

wealth_index

Wealth index poverty line

percentile20

Below 20th percentile poverty line

percentile40

Below 40th percentile poverty line

percentile60

Below 60th percentile poverty line

percentile80

Below 80th percentile poverty line

Source

https://www.povertyindex.org

Examples

  # Access South Africa PPI table
  ppiZAF2023

  # Given a specific PPI score (from 0 - 100), get the row of poverty
  # probabilities from PPI table it corresponds to
  ppiScore <- 50
  ppiZAF2023[ppiZAF2023$score == ppiScore, ]

  # Use subset() function to get the row of poverty probabilities corresponding
  # to specific PPI score
  ppiScore <- 50
  subset(ppiZAF2023, 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
  ppiZAF2023[ppiZAF2023$score == ppiScore, "wealth_index"]