Statistical Measures Income Distribution With Reference To Rural Ethiopia

Statistical methods of measuring the distribution of income have beenrninvestigated as far as computing facility is available. The data set utilizedrnin this study is the sub-san~le income data of the agricultural sedentaryrnpopulation of Ethiopia excluding Tigrai and Eritrea. The data were collectedrnby the Central Statistics Authority and covers a period of one year, fromrnMay 1981 to April 1982.rnIn particular, among others, en~rical results for four inequality measures,rnnamely, Gini cofficient, Theil's entropy index, Relative mean deviation andrnlogartlDllic variance have been obtained. moreover the liability of the lognomal andrnthe pareto distributions as a mathematical discription of the i-;;;.ome data underrnconsideration have been checked. Based on the computed results, some conclusionsrnare made

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