For those interested in duplicating or revising the Inequality and Poverty Key Figures, the programs used to generate these Key Figures are provided below.
Use Programs
- Copy and paste-special (unformatted text) these programs into your job submissions.
- add your userid and password as well as the dataset you want to work with
Programs
na - program is not available for the specific statistical package.
| SPSS | SAS | Stata | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Income Inequality Measures | |||
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Gini Atkinson Coefficient (epsilon=0.5) Atkinson Coefficient (epsilon=1.0) Percentile Ratio (90/10) Percentile Ratio (90/50) Percentile Ratio (80/20) |
Gini atkinson0.5 atkinson1.0 percentile |
all Key Figures | giniatkin |
| Relative Poverty Rates for the Total Population, Children and the Elderly | |||
|
Relative Poverty Rates - Total Population (40%) Relative Poverty Rates - Total Population (50%) Relative Poverty Rates - Total Population (60%) Relative Poverty Rates - Children (40%) Relative Poverty Rates - Children (50%) Relative Poverty Rates - Children (60%) Relative Poverty Rates - Elderly (40%) Relative Poverty Rates - Elderly (50%) Relative Poverty Rates - Elderly (60%) |
poverty | all Key Figures | poverty |
| Distribution of Children living in Different Income Households | |||
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Distribution of Children by income group (50-75%) Distribution of Children by income group (75-150%) Distribution of Children by income group (above 150%) |
na | all Key Figures | chtypdis |
| Poverty Rates for Children by Family Type | |||
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Children Poverty Rates - Two Parents Family (50%) Children Poverty Rates - Single Mother Family (50%) % Children living in Single Mother Family |
na | all Key Figures | chtypdis |
| Bootstrap standard errors on Income inequality and relative poverty rates | |||
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Gini Poverty overall Child Elderly |
na | na |
gini poverty |
The figures we report have been computed with SAS except for Bootstrap standard errors (Stata)