you can use the DASP package developed by A. Araar and J-Y Duclos
available at http://132.203.59.36/DASP/index.html
you can estimate various poverty inequality measure with their s.e and
taking into account the sampling design.
Concerning the remark of Stas Kolenikov I note that std-err of
poverty measure are required by most journal and policy maker to
assess the effect of sampling variability on poverty and inequlity
measure. This is a usuel practice in the profession
HTH
AbdelRahmen El Lahga
University of Tunis
2008/12/5 Stas Kolenikov <[email protected]>:
> There are some commands by Dean Jolliffe with some Russian folks
> (-findit sepov-). I thought Stephen Jenkins had something about that,
> too, but I cannot locate it in -findit poverty- output -- it might've
> been s.e.s for inequality measures, rather.
>
> You can get pretty much anything you need using -mean- of
> appropriately generated variables and -nlcom- to combine them into FGT
> measure of interest. What's more, that will also be appropriate for
> complex survey designs -- I have serious doubts that you will have
> access to any sort of census data in Subsaharan Africa.
>
> Can you possibly comment as to why do you need s.e.s on your poverty
> measures? It is rather unusual that somebody wants them... although it
> pleases my inner statistician to see people do that :)).
>
> On 12/5/08, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Dear Stata users,
>>
>> is there a command to derive in Stata 10 with standard errors for Foster,
>> Greer and Thorbecke type of poverty measurements?
>
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