OECDsppps provides functionalities for calculating subnational Purchasing Power Parities (sPPPs) in OECD regions as part of the project Towards measuring purchasing power parity across OECD regions.
This documentation describes the processing, validation, aggregation and estimation for the purpose of constructing subnational PPPs (sPPPs).
Installation
⚠️ This package is still under development and not available on CRAN.
Install from source using devtools by running:
devtools::install_github('amannj/OECDsppps')Documentation
See tab Articles for detailed package documentation:
Implementation - discusses the production pipeline to create subnational PPPs
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
OECDsppps is available in R, but section Alternative Software discusses how the package can be integrated into a Python or SAS workflow.