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Measuring Income Inequality (Deininger and Squire) Database 1890-1996

Argentina, Australia, Austria...and 99 more, 1890 - 1996
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Reference ID
WLD_1996_DS_v02_M
DOI
https://doi.org/10.48529/7mk0-rd15
Producer(s)
Klaus W. Deininger and Lyn Squire
Collection(s)
Development Research Microdata Fragility, Conflict and Violence
Metadata
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Nov 20, 2013
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Data file: WLD_1996_DS_v02_M

Overview

Valid: 2633
Invalid: 0
Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Width: 112
Range: 1 - 8
Format: Numeric

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Categories
Value Category Cases
1 Included in our high quality data set 693
26.3%
2 Cov 16
0.6%
3 Estimate not included due to availability of an estimate from a consistent source 739
28.1%
4 Estimate based on national accounts or surveys of less than full national coverage 28
1.1%
5 Based on a survey of less than national coverage 637
24.2%
6 Estimate not included as there is no clear reference to the primary source 214
8.1%
7 Tax 85
3.2%
8 Estimate excluded because based on income earning population only or derived from non-representative tax records 221
8.4%
Warning: these figures indicate the number of cases found in the data file. They cannot be interpreted as summary statistics of the population of interest.

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Notes
He = Household equivalent (households are weighted by the number of persons);
Pe = Person equivalent (in addition to He, the effective number of members in the household is assumed to be the square root of the actual members).
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