GEIVARS: Stata module to calculate Generalized Entropy inequality indices

Stephen Jenkins

Statistical Software Components from Boston College Department of Economics

Abstract: geivars estimates several inequality indices commonly used by economists, together with their asymptotic sampling variances. Unit record ('micro' level) data are required. The inequality indices estimated are members of the single parameter Generalized Entropy class GE(a) for a = -1, 0, 1, 2. The indices differ in their sensitivities to differences in different parts of the distribution. The more positive a is, the more sensitive GE(a) is to income differences at the top of the distribution; the more negative a is the more sensitive it is to differences at the bottom of the distribution. GE(0) is the mean logarithmic deviation, GE(1) is the Theil index, and GE(2) is half the square of the coefficient of variation. This version has been revised for Stata 7.0 compatibility.

Language: Stata
Requires: Stata version 5.0
Keywords: inequality; diversity; descriptive statistics (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1999-01-12, Revised 2001-02-05
Note: This module may be installed from within Stata by typing "ssc install geivars". The module is made available under terms of the GPL v3 (https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt). Windows users should not attempt to download these files with a web browser.
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