AINEQUAL: Stata module to compute measures of inequality

Statistical Software Components from Boston College Department of Economics

Abstract: ainequal computes a series of inequality measures of the variables in varlist. It is a revised and upgraded version of inequal7 and inequal published by Edward Whitehouse in STB-23. inequal7 also supersedes the previously released inequal2. Up to 5 variables can be specified in varlist. 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
Keywords: inequality; Gini; Mehran; Piesch; Kakwani; Theil entropy; generalized entropy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: Written 2006-07-27
Note: This module may be installed from within Stata by typing "ssc install ainequal". Windows users should not attempt to download these files with a web browser.

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

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