Re: st: loops for regions

[Chiara Mussida <cmussida@gmail.com>]

Thanks Nick. I will test your suggestion in Stata, since I'm not too
confident with mata.

On 06/09/2012, Nick Cox <njcoxstata@gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks. A quick stab at this is that you have two vectors x1 and x2 and go
>
> . mata :
> ------------------------------------------------- mata (type end to
> exit) -----------------------------------------
> :
> : x1 = (10,10,10,10,10)
>
> : x2 = (12,14,16,18,20)
>
> : sum_x1 = sum(x1)
>
> : sum_x2 = sum(x2)
>
> : a = x2 / sum_x2
>
> : b = (log(x2) - log(x1)) :- (log(sum_x2) - log(sum_x1))
>
> : sqrt(sum(a :* (b:^2)))
>   .1763637091
>
> : end
>
> The main thing is not whether I have understood the details but that
> this is a calculator problem; it is just more convenient for a Stata
> user to use Mata for a calculator.
>
> In Stata it could be something like (completely untested code)
>
> sum x1, meanonly
> local sum_x1 = r(sum)
> sum x2, meanonly
> local sum_x2 = r(sum)
>
> gen work = x2 / `sum_x2'
> replace work = work * (((log(x2) - log(x1)) - (log(`sum_x2') -
> log(`sum_x1')))
> su work, meanonly
> di sqrt(r(sum))
>
> Nick
>
> On Thu, Sep 6, 2012 at 8:05 AM, Chiara Mussida <cmussida@gmail.com> wrote:
>> The reference is :
>> D.M. Lilien, Sectoral shifts and cyclical unemployment, Journal of
>> Political Economy, 90 (4) (1982), pp. 777–793.
>>
>> The index is defined on page 787. It is a bit more complicated than
>> the herfindahl index.
>>
>>
>>
>> On 06/09/2012, Nick Cox <njcoxstata@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Did you try
>>>
>>> findit lilien
>>>
>>> Someone may recognise this, but you give no reference or definition.
>>>
>>> Nick
>>>
>>> On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 9:52 PM, Chiara Mussida <cmussida@gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>> tried to write my own file since the next step will be, as i hope, to
>>>> compute a Lilien index for each region. I tried to search for a stata
>>>> program but i did not succeed. Does anybody know whether it exists?
>>>> Thanks
>>>>
>>>> On 05/09/2012, Nick Cox <njcoxstata@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>> The first line confuses the -if- command and the -if- qualifier.
>>>>>
>>>>> I didn't look in detail at later code, as there should be no need to
>>>>> write your own code, as many programs exist. -search inequality- for a
>>>>> start. See also e.g. -ineq- (SSC), -hhi- (SSC).
>>>>>
>>>>> In fact, in many ways this is a calculator problem easily tackled with
>>>>> Mata.
>>>>>
>>>>> . mata
>>>>> : freq = (0, 0, 3, 9, 9)
>>>>> : pr = freq :/ sum(freq)
>>>>> : sum(pr:^2)
>>>>>   .387755102
>>>>>
>>>>> In fact, zero frequencies map to zero squared proportions and can be
>>>>> omitted.
>>>>>
>>>>> This index, although often attributed to Herfindahl by economists who
>>>>> know only their only literature, was in essence invented decades
>>>>> before by Gini. I don't have the reference in my head, but I think it
>>>>> is in Bishop, Y., Fienberg, S.E. and Holland, P.W. 1975. Discrete
>>>>> multivariate analysis. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. Please trump me by
>>>>> providing a yet earlier reference.
>>>>>
>>>>> Nick
>>>>>
>>>>> On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 5:15 PM, Chiara Mussida <cmussida@gmail.com>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> I want to generate a variable herf1 which takes the value of the
>>>>>> below
>>>>>> index for region 1, and thereafter repeat this loop for all the
>>>>>> region
>>>>>> in my dataset. The problem is that with the below command I get the
>>>>>> herf1 index for region 1, which is identycal in value (I tried) to
>>>>>> the
>>>>>> herf2 for region2 whether I repeat this llop for region2, by starting
>>>>>> with "if reg==2, and so forward for all the regions.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> if reg==1 {
>>>>>> tab cat12_2, gen(categ)
>>>>>> forvalues k = 1 2 to 12 {
>>>>>> sum categ`k', meanonly
>>>>>>         gen share`k'=r(mean) if reg==1 /*shares of each occ cat on
>>>>>> the
>>>>>> total
>>>>>> occupation, time t*/
>>>>>> }
>>>>>> }
>>>>>>
>>>>>> gen herf1=(share1)^2 + (share2)^2 + (share3)^2 + (share4)^2 +
>>>>>> (share5)^2 + (share6)^2 + (share7)^2 + (share8)^2 ///
>>>>>> + (share9)^2 + (share10)^2 + (share11)^2 + (share12)^2  /*Herfindhal
>>>>>> Index Region1*/
>>>>>> the variable reg takes 1 for region1, 2 for region2...up to 20 for
>>>>>> region20. In other words, Stata does not compute the specific index
>>>>>> for each region, but the same index region by region.
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Chiara Mussida
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Doctoral school of Economic Policy
Catholic University, Piacenza (Italy)

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