Builds weighted or unweighted quantile groups for an income variable.
The default target is household per-capita income (ingtot_pc) and the
default weight is fexp.
Usage
enemdu_build_quintiles(
data,
income_var = "ingtot_pc",
weight = "fexp",
quintile_var = "quintil_ingreso_pc",
n = 5,
use_weights = TRUE,
overwrite = FALSE
)Arguments
- data
A data frame.
- income_var
Income variable used to build quintiles.
- weight
Weight variable. If absent and
use_weights = TRUE, the function errors.- quintile_var
Output variable name.
- n
Number of groups. Defaults to
5.- use_weights
Logical. If
TRUE, builds weighted quantile cut points.- overwrite
Logical. If
TRUE, overwrites an existing output variable.