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  • How to generate strobiloid graphs

    Dear STATA Users,

    Greetings! I have gone through the paper entitled "THE INTENSITY AND SHAPE OF INEQUALITY: THE ABG METHOD OF DISTRIBUTIONAL ANALYSIS"In Review of Income and Wealth Series 62, Number 1, March 2016 DOI: 10.1111/roiw.12161. In this paper Prof. Chauvel has generated strobiloid graphs.I find it to be extremely useful in understanding the structure of inequality.
    The strobiloid shows the income hierarchy (on the vertical axis, 1 = median). The curve is larger (horizontal axis) when the density at this level of income is higher: As expected, many individuals will be at the intermediate level near to the median and their number diminishes at the top and at the bottom. Thus, in strobiloids with a larger belly, the intermediate middle class is larger with a more equal distributions.

    Here, I have attached an example data, where my objective is to generate a strobiloid for two different data points/periods (represented by X and Y columns), for say 11 individuals.
    Observation X Y
    1 20 21
    2 25 29
    3 15 14
    4 18 20
    5 40 35
    6 45 60
    7 58 65
    8 37 40
    9 12 18
    10 30 32
    11 50 58
    Can anyone help in generating the strobiloid?

    Regards,
    Aswini
    Last edited by ASWINI MISHRA; 07 May 2017, 10:30.
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