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

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Nov 20, 2013

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Data file: WLD_1996_DS_v02_M

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Valid: 2633

Invalid: 0

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Width: 112

Range: 1 - 8

Format: Numeric

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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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