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Changelog

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medusa 0.2.0

New features: EU module

New module supporting distributional, energy poverty, and transport poverty analysis for all 27 EU countries using Eurostat Household Budget Survey (HBS) microdata (waves 2010, 2015 and 2020).

  • hbs_eu(): Process Eurostat HBS microdata into the format required by medusa (supports 27 EU countries, waves 2010, 2015 and 2020).
  • calc_di_eu(): Calculate distributional impacts for EU countries with support for two price shock scenarios, country-level disaggregation and intersectional analysis.
  • ex_shocks_eu(): Download the two-scenario price shock template (columns CC_s1/CC_s2 per country).
  • available_var_eu(): List variables available for distributional analysis in the EU module.
  • ex_var_intersec_eu(): Download the full list of 211 intersectional variable pairs available for EU analysis.
  • check_var_eu(): Validate that requested variables are present in the data.
  • calc_ep_eu(): Calculate energy poverty indices by country for EU data.
  • calc_tp_eu(): Calculate transport poverty indices by country for EU data.

medusa 0.1.0

Initial release

First release of the medusa package for Spain (INE microdata).

Spain module

  • calc_di(): Calculate distributional impacts of price shocks across socioeconomic groups (income deciles/quintiles, gender, household type, etc.).
  • ex_shocks(): Download the price shock template file.
  • available_var_impact(): List variables available for distributional analysis.
  • ex_var_intersec(), available_var_intersec(): Manage intersectional variable pairs for combined analysis (e.g. income x gender).
  • calc_ep(): Calculate five energy poverty indices (10%, 2M, LIHC, HEP, HEP_LI).
  • calc_tp(): Calculate four transport poverty indices (10%, 2M, LIHC, VTU).