SUMDIST: Stata module to calculate summary statistics for income distributions

Stephen Jenkins ()

Statistical Software Components from Boston College Department of Economics

Abstract: sumdist estimates distributional summary statistics commonly used by income distribution analysts, complementing those available via pctile, xtile, and summarize, detail. For variable x and distribution function F(x), the statistics are (1) quantiles k=1,2,...,m-1, for m = # quantile groups; (2) the quantiles expressed as a percentage of median(x); (3) the quantile group share of x in total x (group income share, %); (4) the cumulative quantile group shares of total x (with cumulation in ascending order of x), i.e. the Lorenz ordinates L(p) at each p_k = F(x_k) for quantile points x_k; and (5) the generalised Lorenz ordinates at each p_k = F(x_k), i.e. GL(p_k) = mean(x)*L(p_k). See also svylorenz.

Language: Stata
Requires: Stata version 8.2
Keywords: inequality; Gini; Lorenz; Lorenz curve; generalized Lorenz (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1999-01-12, Revised 2006-09-19
Note: This module may be installed from within Stata 8 by typing "ssc install sumdist". Windows users should not attempt to download these files with a web browser.

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http://fmwww.bc.edu/repec/bocode/s/sumdist.ado program code (text/plain)
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