apoverty computes a series of poverty measures based on the (welfare) distribution described by varname. It is a revised and upgraded version of poverty published by Philippe Van Kerm.
The poverty measures that can be computed by
- headcount ratio extreme poverty hratio aggregate poverty gap
- poverty gap ratio income gap ratio Watts index
- Sen index Takayama index Thon index,
and series of Foster, Greer and Thorbecke indices with parameters :
- 0.5, 1.5, 2, 2.5, 3, 3.5, 4, 4.5, 5
- Clark et al. indices with parameters :
- 0.1, 0.25, 0.5, 0.75, 0.9
The poverty line is either directly specified by the user or computed relative to the median of varname (half or two-third), see under "options" below. The extreme poverty line is directly speciefied as half of the poverty line used in the exercise.
poverty; headcount; Sen index; income gap ratio; Greer-Thorbecke index; Watts index; poverty gap
This module should be installed from within Stata by typing "ssc install apoverty". Windows users should not attempt to download these files with a web browser.
João Pedro Azevedo
jazevedo@worldbank.org
World Bank
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