Hi there,
Thanks so much for your kindly advice. Meanwhile, I
am a little confused. When you say zero values, are
you referring to "missing values" or something else? I
believe we do not have 0 values for things like per
capita GDP. Your clarification will be greatly
appreciate. Thanks again!
Best,
Yumin
--- "R.E. De Hoyos" <[email protected]> wrote:
> The difference has to do with the way zero-values
> are used in both programs.
>
> You can also try ineqdeco and ineqdec0, this last
> one specifically design to
> take into account zero-values. Both are available
> from the ssc files.
>
> Best
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "yumin sheng" <[email protected]>
> To: <[email protected]>
> Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2004 5:24 PM
> Subject: st: how to obtain Gini coefficients -
> rspread or inequal?
>
>
> > Dear Fellow Stata List Subscribers,
> >
> > I have long benefited from reading the
> insightful
> > contributions from so many of you. Meanwhile, I
> have a
> > question regarding how to use Stata to construct a
> > measure of economic inequality. I have
> regional-level
> > average per capita GDP data for a country for
> about 20
> > years and I want to see how the regions differ
> from
> > each other in level of economic wealth. A natural
> step
> > forward seems to be calculating the Gini
> coefficients
> > using regional level data. Somehow, however, I
> noticed
> > that using the command -rspread- in Stata gives me
> > different results for Gini from using the command
> > -inequal-. There might be other similar commands
> that
> > give still different output. I am just wondering
> which
> > command I should use. Thanks so much in advance!
> >
> > All the best for the new year,
> >
> > Yumin
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