'kit_livingincome': LIVING INCOME CALCULATIONS AND OUTPUTS: stata package to produce tables and charts of the Gap to the Living Income Benchmark
[Last update 07/08/2020]
kit_livingincome provides stata ado-files to produce tables and charts of the Gap to the Living Income Benchmark.
It produces graphs similar to what can be seen at:
https://www.kit.nl/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Analysis-of-the-income.pdf
https://docs.wixstatic.com/ugd/0c5ab3_93560a9b816d40c3a28daaa686e972a5.pdf
A detailed Guidance Manual can be found at:
https://www.living-income.com/papersandreports
or directly at:
Marcelo Tyszler. KIT Royal Tropical Institute, Netherlands. m.tyszler@kit.nl
Carlos de los Rios. COSA. cd@thecosa.org
Elena Serfilippi. KIT Royal Tropical Institute, Netherlands.
Esther Smits. KIT Royal Tropical Institute, Netherlands.
Suchitra Yegna Narayan. Laudes Foundation
- Stata version 14
To install directly from the SSC archive, type:
ssc install kit_livingincome
To install the latest development version directly from Github using stata github package, type:
net install github, from("https://haghish.github.io/github/")
github install mtyszler/KIT_LivingIncome
To install using stata net command, type:
net from https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mtyszler/kit_livingincome/master/
net install kit_livingincome
If you have problems using the commands above, there are 2 possible work-arounds, using the this zip file
If using the default settings from STATA:
Windows users: Create a folder called C:\ado\personal\, if not existent, and extract the contents of the zip file here.
Mac OS X users: Create a folder called ~/ado/personal, if not existent, and extract the contents of the zip file here.
To verify your local setting type sysdir or adopath in STATA.
For more details on how configure local folders type help adopath in STATA.
If none of the options above worked, a final work-around is to extract the contents of the zip file to a local folder.
The commands will work only when this is the active STATA working directory.
To verify you have the latest version of the package successfully installed type:
help kitli_gap2bm
or
help kitli_compare2bm
And take notice of the version and date at the top. The latest version is v1.4, 07aug2020
Please cite the package as follows:
Tyszler, et al. (2020). Living Income Calculations Toolbox. KIT ROYAL TROPICAL INSTITUTE and COSA. Available at: https://github.com/mtyszler/KIT_LivingIncome/
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