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Re: st: calculating income deprivation in stata,
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Mike Lacy <[email protected]>
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Re: st: calculating income deprivation in stata,
Date
Sat, 28 Aug 2010 13:52:13 -0600
On Sat, Aug 28, 2010 at 6:31 AM, Dimitrije Ti?ma
<[email protected]> wrote:
>...snip, snip
>Namely, I want to construct a variable called income deprivation
>score. Each individual A in the dataset would be assigned a score that
>is the sum of all income differentials between individual A and all
>other individuals who have a higher income than individual A. Do you
>know of any Stata code that can help?
While fully acknowledging Stas Kolenikov's point about the resemblance
of the preceding to the Gini index, I'll offer a
snippet for the requested calculation,
if I understand correctly:
// example data
clear *
set seed 39467
set obs 10
gen id = _n
gen income = trunc(40 * runiform())
//
gsort -income
gen deviation = sum(income[_n-1]) - ((_n-1) * income)
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