PolicyEngine / PolicyEngine/policyengine-uk
Add JRF's Minimum Income Standards
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- Dominant language
- Python
- Stars
- 50
- Forks
- 33
- Avg merge
- 20h 58m
- Merged PRs (30d)
- 14
Description
These are defined per year and household type: https://www.lboro.ac.uk/media/wwwlboroacuk/content/crsp/downloads/mis2020/Annual%20Budgets.xlsx
@nikhilwoodruff feel free to dismiss this as out of scope if the idea is for openfisca-uk to only have government information. This metric contains some controversial aspects, such as setting higher thresholds for working-age individuals than pensioners because they spend more on clothing, but it's a major research initiative for a major think tank.
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
No files, tests, or entry points are named; begin by locating the policy model's data definitions and reviewing the linked JRF Minimum Income Standards spreadsheet. Done means representing the annual standards by household type in the project with appropriate coverage for the supplied categories.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- python
- Domain
- backend, data
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100