POVERTY: Stata module to calculate poverty measures

Philippe Van Kerm ()

Statistical Software Components from Boston College Department of Economics

Abstract: poverty computes a series of poverty measures based on the (income) distribution described by varname. The poverty measures that can be computed by poverty are: headcount ratio, aggregate poverty gap, poverty gap ratio, income gap ratio, Watts index, Sen index, Takayama index, Thon index, and three indices( Foster, Greer and Thorbecke; Clark et al.; and Kakwani) for various parameter values. The poverty line is either directly specified by the user or computed relative to the median of varname. This is version 2.0.0 of the software.

Language: Stata
Requires: Stata version 5.0
Keywords: inequality; income distribution; poverty (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: Written 1999-01-07

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