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RE: st: RE: growth rate in panel data
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DE SOUZA Eric <[email protected]>
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RE: st: RE: growth rate in panel data
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Thu, 10 Feb 2011 15:44:11 +0100
You would (get vey weird answers). The ratio of logs means nothing.
Eric de Souza
College of Europe
Brugge (Bruges), Belgium
http://www.coleurope.eu
-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Humaira Asad
Sent: 10 February 2011 15:40
To: STATA HELP
Subject: RE: st: RE: growth rate in panel data
Thank you Nick for your reply. The Gini is in percentage and I have taken natural logs of the Gini coefficient. I have used:
. bysort country: gen ln_gini_gr=(ln_gini/ln_gini[_n-1]-1)*100
but got very weird answers.
Humaira Asad
PhD Research Scholar
UoE Business School
University of Exeter, England
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> From: [email protected]
> To: [email protected]
> Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2011 14:29:27 +0000
> Subject: st: RE: growth rate in panel data
>
> Learn about subscripting under -by:-. Then translate your favourite formula to subscript language.
>
> There is a tutorial on -by:- in
>
> SJ-2-1 pr0004 . . . . . . . . . . Speaking Stata: How to move step by:
> step . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . N. J.
> Cox
> Q1/02 SJ 2(1):86--102 (no commands)
> explains the use of the by varlist : construct to tackle a variety of
> problems with group structure, ranging from simple calculations for
> each of several groups to more advanced manipulations that use the
> built-in _n and _N
>
> If log GINI is 3.68, say, then GINI is perhaps exp(3.68) ~ 40 (are you measuring in percents) or 10^(3.68) ~ 4786 (seems unlikely). There is probably a substantive debate on what metric which is best to compare GINI on, but I'm unequal to the challenge.
>
> Nick
> [email protected]
>
> Humaira Asad
>
> I have a 5 yearly panel data set covering 107 countries. I have to calculate the growth rate of different variables.
> I have tried the various formulas given in the archive of STATALIST but could not find the solution. My data looks like:
>
>
> Countries Years log of GINI
> A 1965 .
> A 1970 3.68
> A 1975 2.34
> A 1980 .
> B 1965 .
> B 1970 3.24
> ...
>
> I want to calculate the growth rate of log of GINI for 1965, 1970 etc for each country. The years are 1965, 1970 ..... to 2010.
>
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