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INEQUAL7: Stata module to compute measures of inequality

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  • Philippe Van Kerm

    (CEPS/INSTEAD, Differdange)

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Abstract

inequal7 computes a series of standard inequality measures for income distributions. It is a revised and upgraded version of inequal published by Edward Whitehouse in STB-23. inequal7} also supersedes the previously released inequal2 with output format now in compliance with Stata 7 standards. 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.

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  • Philippe Van Kerm, 2001. "INEQUAL7: Stata module to compute measures of inequality," Statistical Software Components S416401, Boston College Department of Economics, revised 02 Dec 2007.
    • Handle: RePEc:boc:bocode:s416401
    Note: This module may be installed from within Stata 7 by typing "ssc install inequal7". 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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    inequality; Gini; Theil; Piesch; Kakwani; Stata;
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