> It is quite common to use survey data to compute income
> inequality and poverty measures. Usually survey data is
> stratified so that the probability of being surveyed varies
> across households. The -pweight- and -svy- commands take the
> "expansion factors" into account, however non of the
> income-distribution/poverty commands (ineqdeco, inequal,
> rspread, sumdist or
> povdeco) allow for the -pweight- option and I don't know how
> to use them within the -svy- command.
>
> How can I use the inequality/poverty commands when I have a
> stratified survey (the survey already contains the inverse of
> the probability of being surveyed [expansion factors])?
-findit poverty- and -findit inequality- will point you to several user-written programs, which might be helpful.
Greetings,
Daniel
*
* For searches and help try:
* http://www.stata.com/support/faqs/res/findit.html
* http://www.stata.com/support/statalist/faq
* http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/
