R: At-risk-of-poverty threshold

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## At-risk-of-poverty threshold

### Description

Estimate the at-risk-of-poverty threshold. The standard definition is to use 60% of the weighted median equivalized disposable income.

### Usage

    arpt(inc, weights = NULL, sort = NULL, years = NULL, data = NULL,
      p = 0.6, na.rm = FALSE)

### Arguments

`inc` | either a numeric vector giving the equivalized disposable income, or (if `data` is not `NULL`) a character string, an integer or a logical vector specifying the corresponding column of `data`.
`weights` | optional; either a numeric vector giving the personal sample weights, or (if `data` is not `NULL`) a character string, an integer or a logical vector specifying the corresponding column of `data`.
`sort` | optional; either a numeric vector giving the personal IDs to be used as tie-breakers for sorting, or (if `data` is not `NULL`) a character string, an integer or a logical vector specifying the corresponding column of `data`.
`years` | optional; either a numeric vector giving the different years of the survey, or (if `data` is not `NULL`) a character string, an integer or a logical vector specifying the corresponding column of `data`. If supplied, values are computed for each year.
`data` | an optional `data.frame`.
`p` | a numeric vector of values in [0,1] giving the percentages of the weighted median to be used for the at-risk-of-poverty threshold.
`na.rm` | a logical indicating whether missing values should be removed.

### Details

The implementation strictly follows the Eurostat definition.

### Value

A numeric vector containing the value(s) of the at-risk-of-poverty threshold is returned.

### Author(s)

Andreas Alfons

### References

Working group on Statistics on Income and Living Conditions (2004) Common cross-sectional EU indicators based on EU-SILC; the gender pay gap. EU-SILC 131-rev/04, Eurostat.

### See Also

`arpr`, `incMedian`, `weightedMedian`

### Examples

    data(eusilc)
    arpt("eqIncome", weights = "rb050", data = eusilc)

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