st: Gini coefficient of survival tables

[Johannes Schoder <johannes.schoder@soi.uzh.ch>]

Dear Stata list users,
I am calculating the Gini coefficient of the survival tables for 30 OECD 
countries for the time period of 1960-2004 using the Human Mortality 
Database.
I take years lived (from year 0 to 110) as income and death numbers as 
population.
Thereby I use the Stata command "ginidesc death numbers, by(year)".
Unfortunately I receive totally different results when I calculate the 
Ginicoefficient  "by feet" with Excel.
So I am not sure if I used the command properly.
Thanks a lot in advance!

Johannes

P.S.:

The data is having the following structure:


Year Years lived    Death Numbers
1960    1                3400
1960    2                478
1960    3                488
   .
   .
   .


1961    1                3200
1961    2                470
1961    3                472

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