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st: Inequality of education: ineqdec0?
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"Francesco Burchi" <[email protected]>
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st: Inequality of education: ineqdec0?
Date
Thu, 18 Feb 2010 19:16:44 +0100
Dear Statalisters,
I am using individual data to calculate inequality of educational
participation across people in a country in 3 different year. I would
like to compute the Gini coefficient and possibly other indices of
inequality on the variable "years of schooling". Can I use the simple
command:
Ineqdec0 EDU ?
The problems is that years of schooling is a discrete variable, which
presents many 0-values, and I am not sure whether I can use the same
procedure used for computing income inequality. Moreover, can I compare
directly the indices for the three years?
Thanks,
Francesco
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