APOVERTY: Stata module to compute poverty measures

João Pedro Azevedo ()

Statistical Software Components from Boston College Department of Economics

Abstract: apoverty computes a series of poverty measures based on the (income) distribution described by varname. It is a revised and upgraded version of poverty published by Philippe Van Kerm.

Language: Stata
Requires: Stata version 7.0
Keywords: poverty; headcount; Sen index; income gap ratio; Greer-Thorbecke index; Watts index; poverty gap (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2006-07-27, Revised 2007-04-13
Note: This module should be installed from within Stata by typing "ssc install apoverty". 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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