ELECTOOL: Stata module containing toolkit to analyze electoral data

Antonio M. Jaime-Castillo ()

Statistical Software Components from Boston College Department of Economics

Abstract: ELECTOOL is a toolkit to analyze electoral data. It can be used to analyze both aggregate data and individual voting data. It includes two programs: v2seats and electind. v2seats allocates seats to parties, using different allocation methods. Majority formulas include majority and plurality. Highest average formulas include: D'Hondt, St. Laguë, modified St. Laguë, Hungarian St. Laguë, Danish method, Imperiali's divisors, Huntington method and Adams method. Largest remainder formulas include Hare, Hagenbach-Bischoff, Droop, Imperiali, and reinforced Imperiali quotas. It can be used at different aggregation levels, and allows for different electoral thresholds. Customized formulas are also available. electind computes electoral indicators, such as proportionality, electoral and parliamentary fragmentation, polarization and volatility. Proportionality indicators include: Rae, Loosemore-Hanby, Gallagher, Lijphart, St. Laguë, maximum deviation, maximum advantage ratio, Grofman index, and Cox-Shugart. Fragmentation indicators include: Rae's F, ENP, Taagepera's LC, Dunleavy-Boucek, Molinar's NP, Kesselman-Wildgen, concentration and competitiveness. Polarization is calculated using both absolute and Euclidean distances. It can be used at different aggregation levels. It also computes volatility between elections.

Language: Stata
Requires: Stata version 9
Keywords: elections; electoral data; voting (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2008-10-23, Revised 2009-01-19
Note: This module may be installed from within Stata by typing "ssc install electool". Windows users should not attempt to download these files with a web browser.

Downloads: (external link)
http://fmwww.bc.edu/repec/bocode/e/electind.ado program code (text/plain)
http://fmwww.bc.edu/repec/bocode/e/electind.hlp help file (text/plain)
http://fmwww.bc.edu/repec/bocode/v/v2seats.ado program code (text/plain)
http://fmwww.bc.edu/repec/bocode/v/v2seats.hlp help file (text/plain)
http://fmwww.bc.edu/repec/bocode/e/electool.pdf documentation (application/pdf)

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