Gini coefficient — md_compute

Compute the Gini coefficient for microdata.

Usage

md_compute_gini(welfare, weight)

welfare: numeric: A vector of income or consumption values
weight: numeric: A vector of population weights, optional, a vector of 1s if not specified.

numeric

Given a vector of income or consumption values and their respective weights md_compute_gini() computes the Gini coefficient for the distribution.

md_compute_gini(welfare = 1:2000, weight = rep(1, 2000))
#> [1] 0.3331667