ineq (version 0.1-1)

pov: Poverty Measures

Description

computes the poverty of an (income) vector according to the specified poverty measure

Usage

pov(x,c,parameter=1,type=c("Watts", "Sen", "Foster")) 
Watts(x,c)
Sen(x,c)
Foster(x,c,parameter=1)

Arguments

x

a vector containing at least non-negative elements

(c){a constant giving the absolute poverty boundary} parameter{parameter of the poverty measure} type{character string giving the measure used to compute poverty coefficient must be one of the strings in the default argumen