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Abstract #304576

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Activity Number: 228
Type: Contributed
Date/Time: Tuesday, August 9, 2005 : 8:30 AM to 10:20 AM
Sponsor: Section on Government Statistics
Abstract - #304576
Title: Dominance in Income Distribution in Terms of Location and Dispersion
Author(s): Subir Ghosh*+
Companies: University of California, Riverside
Address: Department of Statistics, Riverside, CA, 92521-0138, United States
Keywords: INCOME ; POVERTY ; LOCATION ; DISPERSION ; DOMINANCE ; COMPARISON
Abstract:

Measuring the income and poverty of a population and comparing the income and poverty estimates for two or more populations are major areas of social policy research and social planning. In this paper, we examine aspects of comparing income and poverty estimates of two or more populations in terms of both location and dispersion. We present three definitions of the dominance of the income distribution of Population 1 over the income distribution of Population 2 with respect to their n-person economy. We then demonstrate how these definitions can be used in comparing the income and poverty estimates for Populations 1 and 2. We used several distributions and measures in our comparisons of Populations 1 and 2.

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