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Ilocos

Income Metadata from Ilocos, Philippines


Description

Income metadata from surveys conducted by the Philippines' National Statistics Office.

Usage

data(Ilocos)

Format

A data frame with 632 observations of 8 variables.

income

total income of household,

sex

sex of household head ("male" or "female"),

family.size

family size (sometimes averaged over two semesters),

urbanity

factor with levels "rural" and "urban",

province

factor indicating the particular province,

AP.income

total household income during the APIS,

AP.family.size

family size during APIS,

AP.weight

APIS survey weight for each household.

Details

The data contains household income and metadata in one of the sixteen regions of the Philippines called Ilocos. The data comes from two of the NSO's surveys: the 1997 Family and Income and Expenditure Survey and the 1998 Annual Poverty Indicators Survey (APIS).

Since the APIS only has a six month reference period, the original data were rescaled using an adjustment factor from the quarterly GDP figures that can be obtained from the major sectors.

Source

National Statistics Office, Philippines: http://www.census.gov.ph/, where also the whole data set may be obtained.


ineq

Measuring Inequality, Concentration, and Poverty

v0.2-13
GPL-2 | GPL-3
Authors
Achim Zeileis [aut, cre], Christian Kleiber [ctb]
Initial release
2014-07-21

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