PSHARE: Stata module to compute and graph percentile shares

Ben Jann

Statistical Software Components from Boston College Department of Economics

Abstract: pshare computes and graphs percentile shares from individual level data. Percentile shares are often used in inequality research to study the distribution of income or wealth. They are defined as differences between Lorenz ordinates of the outcome variable. Technically, the observations are sorted in increasing order of the outcome variable and the specified percentiles are computed from the running sum of the outcomes. Percentile shares are then computed as differences between percentiles, divided by total outcome. pshare requires moremata to be installed on the system; see ssc describe moremata.

Language: Stata
Requires: Stata version 11 and moremata from SSC (q.v.)
Keywords: percentile shares; income distribution; wealth distribution; graphics (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015-07-03, Revised 2018-06-15
Note: This module should be installed from within Stata by typing "ssc install pshare". 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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