EGEN_INEQUAL: Stata module providing extensions to generate inequality and poverty measures

Michael Lokshin () and Zurab Sajaia ()

Statistical Software Components from Boston College Department of Economics

Abstract: The set of programs in this package uses egen to create newvar of the optionally specified storage type equal to one of the standard inequality and Foster-Greer-Thorbecke (FGT) poverty measures.

Language: Stata
Requires: Stata version 8
Keywords: relative mean deviation; coefficient of variation; Gini index; Mehran index; Piesch index; Kakwani index; Theil entropy index; mean log deviation generalized entropy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2006-04-06
Note: This module may be installed from within Stata by typing "ssc install egen_inequal". Windows users should not attempt to download these files with a web browser.

Downloads: (external link)
http://fmwww.bc.edu/repec/bocode/e/egen_inequal.hlp help file (text/plain)
http://fmwww.bc.edu/repec/bocode/_/_ginequal.ado program code (text/plain)
http://fmwww.bc.edu/repec/bocode/_/_gfgt.ado program code (text/plain)
http://fmwww.bc.edu/repec/bocode/_/_gtheil.ado program code (text/plain)
http://fmwww.bc.edu/repec/bocode/_/_gsdl.ado program code (text/plain)
http://fmwww.bc.edu/repec/bocode/_/_grmd.ado program code (text/plain)
http://fmwww.bc.edu/repec/bocode/_/_gpiesch.ado program code (text/plain)
http://fmwww.bc.edu/repec/bocode/_/_gmld.ado program code (text/plain)
http://fmwww.bc.edu/repec/bocode/_/_gmehran.ado program code (text/plain)
http://fmwww.bc.edu/repec/bocode/_/_gkakwani.ado program code (text/plain)
http://fmwww.bc.edu/repec/bocode/_/_ghalf.ado program code (text/plain)
http://fmwww.bc.edu/repec/bocode/_/_ggini.ado program code (text/plain)
http://fmwww.bc.edu/repec/bocode/_/_gentropy.ado program code (text/plain)
http://fmwww.bc.edu/repec/bocode/_/_gcov.ado program code (text/plain)

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