The Asymptotic Distribution of the S–Gini Index

Ričardas Zitikis and Joseph L. Gastwirth

Australian & New Zealand Journal of Statistics, 2002, vol. 44, issue 4, 439-446

Abstract: Several generalizations of the classical Gini index, placing smaller or greater weights on various portions of income distribution, have been proposed by a number of authors. For purposes of statistical inference, the large sample distribution theory of the estimators of those measures of economic inequality is required. The present paper was stimulated by the use of bootstrap by Xu (2000) to estimate the variance of the estimator of the S–Gini index. It shows that the theory of L–statistics (Chernoff, Gastwirth & Johns, 1967; Shorack & Wellner, 1986) makes possible the construction of a consistent estimator for the S–Gini index and proof of its asymptotic normality. The paper also presents an explicit formula for the asymptotic variance. The formula should be helpful in planning the size of samples from which the S–Gini index can be estimated with a prescribed margin of error.

Date: 2002
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