Statistical Measures Income Distribution With Reference to Rural Ethiopia
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1989-06
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Addis Abeba university
Abstract
Statistical methods of measuring the distribution of income have been
investigated as far as computing facility is available. The data set utilized
in this study is the sub-san~le income data of the agricultural sedentary
population of Ethiopia excluding Tigrai and Eritrea. The data were collected
by the Central Statistics Authority and covers a period of one year, from
May 1981 to April 1982.
In particular, among others, en~rical results for four inequality measures,
namely, Gini cofficient, Theil's entropy index, Relative mean deviation and
logartlDllic variance have been obtained. moreover the liability of the lognomal and
the pareto distributions as a mathematical discription of the i-;;;.ome data under
consideration have been checked. Based on the computed results, some conclusions
are made
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Distribution With Reference to Rural