Hi Johannes,
I tried -ginidesc- and it works as far as I can tell exactly how you used
it. However, I only compared results with ginis from -inequal2- and
-egen_inequal- and both (user written ados) show the same gini for the
first two digits (then they tend to differ, maybe rounding errors). My
conclusion - allthough majority vote might not be a good criterion for a
proof... - is that you may have an error in your Excel calculation.
Hope this helps
Johannes
[email protected] schrieb am 24/04/2008 11:05:58:
> 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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