INEQUAL7: Stata module to compute measures of inequality

Philippe Van Kerm ()

Statistical Software Components from Boston College Department of Economics

Abstract: inequal7 computes a series of standard inequality measures for income distributions. It is a revised and upgraded version of inequal published by Edward Whitehouse in STB-23. inequal7} also supersedes the previously released inequal2 with output format now in compliance with Stata 7 standards. The inequality measures computed are: the "relative mean deviation", the "coefficient of variation", the "standard deviation of logs", the"Gini index", the "Mehran index", the "Piesch index", the "Kakwani index", "Theil entropy index", the "mean log deviation" and the "generalised entropy measure" with sensitivity parameters -1 and 2.

Language: Stata
Requires: Stata version 7.0
Keywords: inequality; Gini; Theil; Piesch; Kakwani (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2001-02-20, Revised 2007-12-02
Note: This module may be installed from within Stata 7 by typing "ssc install inequal7". Windows users should not attempt to download these files with a web browser.

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http://fmwww.bc.edu/repec/bocode/i/inequal7.ado program code (text/plain)
http://fmwww.bc.edu/repec/bocode/i/inequal7.hlp help file (text/plain)

Related works:
Software Item: INEQUAL2: Stata module to compute measures of inequality (1999)
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