On Thu, 30 Jan 2003 05:49:14 -0600 Scott Merryman <[email protected]>
wrote:
> > ------------------------------
> >
> > Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2003 11:37:02 -0600
> > From: "Mito" <[email protected]>
> > Subject: st: gini from grouped data
> >
> > Dear friends,
> > is there an ado file for the estimation gini from grouped data?
> > thanks,
> > Maximo
>
>
> Dr. Martin Biewen has an ado file for the "Bootstrap for inequality
> decomposition by subgroup" avaiable at
> http://www.uni-heidelberg.de/institute/fak18/institutes/awi/ls_schmidt/cv_bie/st
> ata.html
>
> It computes additive decompositions of MLD and Theil by subgroup and appropriate
> bootstrap confidence intervals.
IMHO Scott's suggestion is not what was originally asked for, namely a
program for calculating inequality indices from grouped data (i.e. you
know category boundaries and the numbers of obs with incomes falling
within the categories, and maybe some category means).
Martin's program, like my -ineqdeco-, uses micro-data (unit record
data), allowing decompositions by /population/ subgroup.
As Philippe Van Kerm suggested, you can use any of the microdata
inequality estimation programs around (his, mine, ...) to calculate
inequality measures from grouped data (using frequency weight options),
at the cost of under-estimating inequality ... you will be assuming
equality within income categories.
For a review of ways to do better, I recommend /Measuring Inequality/,
second edition, by Frank A Cowell, and the references therein
(including Cowell and Mehta, Review of Economic Studies, 1983?)
Stephen
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