EGEN_INEQUAL: Stata module providing extensions to generate inequality and poverty measures

Abstract

The set of programs in this package uses egen to create newvar of the optionally specified storage type equal to one of the standard inequality and Foster-Greer-Thorbecke (FGT) poverty measures.relative mean deviation ,coefficient of variation,Gini index, Mehran index, Piesch index, Kakwani index, Theil entropy index, mean log deviation generalized entropy