convergEU (version 0.7.3.2)

departure_mean: Departures from an average

Description

For each country the departure from the average is calculated and a numerical label is created: -1 if smaller than one standard deviation from the mean, +1 if above one standard deviation from the mean, 0 otherwise.

Usage

departure_mean(oriTB, sigmaTB, timeName = "time")

Value

list of tibbles containing labelled departures from the mean, square difference from the mean, and percentage of deviance.

Arguments

oriTB

original dataset (tibble) with time by country values.

sigmaTB

result from sigma_convergence called on oriTB.

timeName

string with the name of the time variable in oriTB.

References

https://www.eurofound.europa.eu/system/files/2022-04/introduction-to-the-convergeu-package-0.6.4-tutorial-v2-apr2022.pdf

Examples

# Example 1
# The original dataset in the format time by countries:
require(tibble)
testTB <- dplyr::tribble(
~time, ~countryA ,  ~countryB,  ~countryC,
2000,     0.8,   2.7,    3.9,
2001,     1.2,   3.2,    4.2,
2002,     0.9,   2.9,    4.1,
2003,     1.3,   2.9,    4.0,
2004,     1.2,   3.1,    4.1,
2005,     1.2,   3.0,    4.0
)

# Calculate sigma_convergence on the original dataset:
mySTB <- sigma_conv(testTB)

# Calculate departures from the average for each country:
resDM <-  departure_mean(oriTB=testTB, sigmaTB=mySTB$res)
names(resDM$res)

# Example 2: Departures from the average for the Eurofound dataset "emp_20_64_MS"
data(emp_20_64_MS)
# Sigma convergence on the original dataset:
mySC <- sigma_conv(emp_20_64_MS)

# Calculate departures from the mean for each country:
resDMeur <- departure_mean(oriTB = emp_20_64_MS, sigmaTB = mySC$res)

# Results for labelled departures from the mean:
resDMeur$res$departures

# Results for square difference from the mean:
resDMeur$res$squaredContrib

# Results for the percentage of deviance:
resDMeur$res$devianceContrib