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Show 106 (Conceicao equalize and Ferreira 2000; Tsakloglou 1993; Annand 1983), government policies differences in average incomes between groups may well be to misguided. 3.4. Discussion of Results the two Using according to a Theil set of factors taken demographics (age and sex for the household head). into rural decomposed entropy indices, aggregate inequality is decomposed of household To inequality is significantly higher a time. These factors and education head) the overall level of begin with, decomposition results. According inequality at one and urban to both the Theil ethnicity, region, are (highest level of inequality inequality. schooling in the country is Table 21 reports the indices, the within-area component of than the between-area component. Over 96 percent of aggregate inequality is driven by the inequality that exists within rural and within urban areas. And the percentage contribution of within-area distributed between the rural and urban Contribution of inequality within urban Table 21: areas areas according is roughly equally to the Theil T index, while the higher (54 percent) Decomposition of Inequality by Rural Theil T* Within-group Urban Total are than the rural and Urban Areas Theil L* Between-group Within-group Between-group 0.078 0.139 -0.068 (49.7) (23.7) (42.5) (-20.9) 0.155 -0.067 0.177 0.079 (47.0) (-2004) (54.2) (24.2) 0.320 0.011 0.316 0.011 (96.7) (3.3) (96.7) (3.3) 0.164 Rural *Numbers in brackets is inequality percentage contribution to total inequality. |
