MEDUSA V2.0

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.
get_prices_gcameurope(): Extract and format prices from a GCAM-Europe database or project file for MEDUSA.

MEDUSA: An R tool to model equity and distributional impacts

• This release is associated with medusa-v1.0.
• This release includes Spanish HBS microdata for the period 2006-2021. The original survey data has been minimally processed to enhance usability and incorporate additional socioeconomic variables.
• This release represents the version used for the accompanying publication in the Journal of Open Source Software.