mpindex: Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) via the Alkire-Foster Method

Estimate Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) measures from household survey microdata using the Alkire-Foster dual-cutoff counting method (Alkire and Foster, 2011). Load indicator specifications from CSV, Excel, JSON, or plain-text files; compute the headcount ratio (H), intensity (A), and MPI = H x A across any subgroup; and export results to formatted Excel reports. Supports complex survey designs — stratification, clustering, and probability weights — and optionally appends design-based standard errors and confidence intervals.

Version:	0.3.0
Depends:	R (≥ 4.1.0)
Imports:	dplyr, stringr, jsonlite, tibble, openxlsx, tsg, rlang, lifecycle
Suggests:	tidyr, survey, testthat (≥ 3.0.0), knitr, rmarkdown, gt
Published:	2026-06-15
DOI:	10.32614/CRAN.package.mpindex
Author:	Bhas Abdulsamad [aut, cre, cph]
Maintainer:	Bhas Abdulsamad <aeabdulsamad at gmail.com>
BugReports:	https://github.com/yng-me/mpindex/issues
License:	MIT + file LICENSE
URL:	https://github.com/yng-me/mpindex, https://yng-me.github.io/mpindex/
NeedsCompilation:	no
Materials:	README, NEWS
CRAN checks:	mpindex results

Documentation:

Reference manual:	mpindex.html , mpindex.pdf
Vignettes:	Migrating to mpindex 0.3.0 (source, R code) Getting Started with mpindex (source, R code) Survey-Weighted MPI (source, R code)

Downloads:

Package source:	mpindex_0.3.0.tar.gz
Windows binaries:	r-devel: mpindex_0.2.1.zip, r-release: mpindex_0.2.1.zip, r-oldrel: mpindex_0.2.1.zip
macOS binaries:	r-release (arm64): mpindex_0.3.0.tgz, r-oldrel (arm64): mpindex_0.3.0.tgz, r-release (x86_64): mpindex_0.2.1.tgz, r-oldrel (x86_64): mpindex_0.2.1.tgz
Old sources:	mpindex archive

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