Ilocos {ineq} | R Documentation |
Income metadata from surveys conducted by the Philippines' National Statistics Office.
data(Ilocos)
A data frame with 632 observations of 8 variables.
"male"
or "female"
),"rural"
and "urban"
,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.
National Statistics Office, Philippines: http://www.census.gov.ph/, where also the whole data set may be obtained.