Statistical Studies of Income, Poverty and Inequality in Europe: Computing and Graphics in R Using EU-SILC

摘要

Poverty, according to Atkinson (1998), is about as widespread in our societies currently as it was a few decades ago when, admittedly, our standards for what amounts to prosperity were somewhat more modest. The author of this reviewed book wrote that 'by definition, regardless of its details, the poor are poorly integrated in societies in which prosperity dominates, and substantial reduction of poverty would be generally hailed as a great social and economic achievement'. The poor population is studied with surveys. The design and analysis of such surveys are statistical and computational. The book focuses on statistical computing.