Income Distribution

DOI :
10.1787/els-indi-data-en
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Comparable data on the distribution of household income provide both a point of reference for judging the performance of any country and an opportunity to assess the role of common drivers as well as drivers that are country-specific. They also allow governments to draw on the experience of different countries in order to learn "what works best" in narrowing income disparities and poverty. But achieving comparability in this field is also difficult, as national practices differ widely in terms of concepts, measures, and statistical sources.
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Authors:
OECD
Publication Date :
19 June 2012
Data are: :
Annual
DOI :
10.1787/data-00199-en
Years covered :
1975-2010

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This dataset is a subset of the Income Distribution Database. This table comprises comparable data on the distribution of household income with a core focus on inequality providing both a point of reference for judging the performance of any country and an opportunity to assess the role of common drivers as well as drivers that are country-specific. They also allow governments to draw on the experience of different countries in order to learn "what works best" in narrowing income disparities and poverty. The data is presented with income and population measures as core variables ( Gini coefficient, real mean income, standard coefficient of variation and more)that can be further divided by period, definition and age. Data are presented from the mid-70’s onwards.
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Keywords: income distribution, working age population, retirement age population, households, mean log deviation, statistics, real mean income, income disparity, income and population measures, inequality, gini coefficient, standard coefficient of variation