Moon Joong,
(1) Retrieving results from -inequal2- or -inequal7- is not more difficult
than for other Stata commands. Inequality estimates are saved in global
macros (see the help files for details). For example,
gen results = .
inequal7 income
replace results = `r(gini)' in 1
replace results = `r(kakwani)' in 2
replace results = `r(mehran)' in 3
will generate a variable containing estimates for the Gini, Kakwani and
Mehran measures.
(Note that -inequal7- stores results in macros rather than scalars. This
is an oddity I will fix when updating these commands.)
Look at -file- or -outsheet- if you want to export results to some other
software.
(2) As for your second question, -inequal7- requires at least 11 obs. in
your dataset. (Why 11? That's because eleven inequality indices are
-tabdisp-layed by inequal7.) If you -set obs 11-, then run inequal7, it
should work. This is a small bug I should also fix one day, when updating
the command.
Hope this helps,
Philippe
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st: inequal7 and beyond
From: "Moon Joong" <[email protected]>
Subject: st: inequal7 and beyond
Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2003 18:56:44 -0400
Dear Stata lovers,
Hi. I'm calculating the inequality indices using many modules like
inequal2
or inequal7.
I was wondering if there is any way to generate variables that contain the
resulted indices or to save the indices in a spread sheet so that I can
use
them later on for my regression analysis. Otherwise I should rely on a
brute
force(!) since I have a lot of country-year obs.
This question might be generic; in a sense the question is: how I can
generate the estimated results as variables or save them in a spread
sheet.
And also whenever I typed the code 'inequal7' I got an error message,
saying
"Obs. nos. out of range r(198)." I'm using Stata 8. But the code
'inequal2'
works very well.
Thanks so much in advance!!!
MoonJoong
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