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Re: st: RE: Gini coefficient for spatial data
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Francisco Rowe <[email protected]>
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Re: st: RE: Gini coefficient for spatial data
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Wed, 23 May 2012 08:49:13 +1000
Thanks Nick.
Well, I rephrase my question: Can I apply the existing Stata commands -e.g. ineqdeco, inequal, sgini- to calculate the Gini coefficient using spatial data? All of the commands I mentioned seem to require as input micro data.
What I want is to measure the degree of concentration/dispersion of different variables at the different geographical scales.
Francisco.
On 23/05/2012, at 12:40 AM, Nick Cox wrote:
> Ignorance is a condition treatable by computer searching.
>
> I don't know that Gini coefficients are defined differently for spatial data. However, last time I looked seriously, the name "Gini coefficient" had been applied to about four quite different measures, so you might need to say which you have in mind.
>
> More positively, -findit gini- might find what you want. Note that most if not all of the Stata functionality in this territory is user-written.
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> Nick
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> Francisco Rowe
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> An ignorant question: I would like to know how can I compute a Gini coefficient using spatial data, for example regional unemployment rates?
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