OECDsppps provides functionalities for calculating subnational Purchasing Power Parities (sPPPs) in OECD regions.
It describes the processing, validation, aggregation and estimation of the multiple data sources for the purpose of constructing subnational PPPs.
Installation
This package is still under development, but can be installed using devtools.
devtools::install_github('amannj/OECDsppps')Documentation
See tab Articles for detailed package documentation:
Validation - validate price statistics at various levels of aggregation, from the initial item-level price quotes to the basic heading level and upwards, as well as comparing household expenditure weights across regions
Estimation - estimating subnational purchasing power parities from item-level prices at basic heading level and beyond
Implementation - discusses the production pipeline of of OECDsPPPs