mpitb: A toolbox for multidimensional poverty indices

2023/09/01 by Nicolai Suppa · 1 voice · 1 citation
Social Sciences · Nursing · #Income, Poverty, and Inequality #Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare #Child Nutrition and Water Access

paper · pdf · doi:10.1177/1536867x231195286

openalex publication_date 2023/09/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/22

Abstract

In this article, I present mpitb , a toolbox for multidimensional poverty indices (MPIs). The package mpitb comprises several subcommands to facilitate specification, estimation, and analyses of MPIs and supports the popular Alkire– Foster framework to multidimensional poverty measurement. mpitb offers several benefits to researchers, analysts, and practitioners working on MPIs, including substantial time savings (for example, because of lower data management and programming requirements) while allowing for a more comprehensive analysis at the same time. Aside from various convenience functions, mpitb also provides low-level tools for advanced users and programmers.

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