Re: st: gidecomposition...problems

[Richard Goldstein <richgold@ix.netcom.com>]

I am unable to find this program (using -which- or -findit-);
where does it come from?

Rich

Vincenzo Lombardo wrote:

> dear  all,
> i am using the gidecomposition program in stata 9 to decompose the change
> in poverty into the 3 effects. the outcome I get looks like this:
>                
> Growth and Inequality Poverty Decomposition
>                
> Base year 1    Base year    2    Average effect
>                
> Poverty rate (P0)           100.000    100.000
>                
> Change in P0                 0.000    0.000        0.000
>                
> Growth component             0.000    0.000        0.000
> Redistribution component     0.000    0.000        0.000
> Interaction component        0.000    0.000        0.000
>                
> that is, it is as stata does not recognize any changes in the Head-Count. I
> canceled out from my original dataset all the variables not needed, and I
> kept only Head-Count for each region (I have 19 italian region, for which
> i will use "if"), year and gini coefficient..
> could you tell me why stata does not reply as it was supposed? Am I doing
> something wrong? for instance should I set some description of the
> distribution or of the data??
> the command I used to implement the decomposition is:
>
> gidecomposition using "C:\Documents and
> Settings\Vicius\Desktop\MAData\decomposition\usingI_1989.dta" if
> region==1, var1(rHC) var2(rHC) pline1(povline) pline2(povline) hc
>
> thanks a lot
> warm regards, vincenzo
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