pppindexr

I have published an R package to github. It provides functions to work with international comparisons of real incomes (Geary Khamis, EKS, and CCD real income indices).

See the website here: https://erikosorensen.github.io/pppindexr/index.html

Here is how it is installed:

# install.packages("devtools")
devtools::install_github("ErikOSorensen/pppindexr")

It comes with the Neary (2004) data installed, and here is how to calculate the three supplied indices for the 60 countries in Neary’s paper, listing six of the low income countries:

library(pppindexr)
P <- Neary2004 |> dplyr::select(p1:p11)
Q <- Neary2004 |> dplyr::select(q1:q11)
Neary2004$eks <- eks(P,Q)
Neary2004$gk <- ygk(P,Q,
                    pop = Neary2004$pop1980, 
                    min_scale = TRUE)
Neary2004$ccd <- ccd(P,Q)
Neary2004 |> dplyr::sample_n(10) |> 
  dplyr::select(country, eks, ccd, gk) |>
  dplyr::arrange(eks) |>
  knitr::kable(digits=3)