Income-inequality in nations

Variable Measurement Era SPSS code N Source
Dispersion in income statistics1 Inequality in income (gini-coeficients) 1975-87 IncomeInequality1A_1975.87 30 VanDam 1989: 20-21
Inequality in household incomes (gini-coefficients) 1975-88 IncomeInequality1B_1975.88 23 UN-HDR 1992 table 17
Gini index: measures inequality over the entire distribution of income or consumption 1990-99 IncomeInequality1_1990s 88 UN-HDR 2001 table 12
2000 IncomeInequality1_2000 115 UN-HDR 2002 table 13
2005 IncomeInequallity1_2005 126 UN-HDR 2007 table 15
1993-2004 IncomeInequality1C_2000 116 World Development Indicators 2007, table 2.7
Share richest 20% to poorest 20%
(How many times richer the rich are than the poor)		 1993-1999 IncomeInequality2_1990s 82 UN-HDR 1995. 2001
2000 IncomeInequality2_2000 115 UN-HDR 2002 table 13
2005 IncomeInequality2_2005 126 UN-HDR 2007 table 15
Income-equality:share of the lowest 40% of households in GDP 1980-88 IncomeInequality3_1980s 47 UN-DP 1995 table 12
1988-98 IncomeInequality3_1990s 67 World Cultural Report table 28
Dispersion in income surveys.2 Average subjective family income-position 1990 IncomeInequaityl4_1990 41 WVS2 item 363?
1995-98 IncomeInequality4_1995 45 WVS3 item 227
1999 IncomeInequality4_1999 79 WVS4 item x047
1990-1999 IncomeInequality4_1990s 88 Mean eqin490, 95, 99
Standard-deviation subjective income-position 1990 IncomeInequality5_1990 41 WVS2 item 363
1995-98 IncomeInequality5_1995 45 WVS3 item 227
1999 IncomeInequality5_1999 80 WVS4 item x047
1990-1999 IncomeInequality5_1990s 86 Mean eqin5_90, 95, 99
Skewness 1990-91 IncomeInequality6_1990 40 WVS2 item 363
Kurtosis 1990-91 IncomeInequality7_1990 41 WVS2 item 363

Variable Measurement Era SPSS code N Source
Attitude towards   19?? AcceptIncomeInequal_1990s ??  
       

1.Income is not always measured in the same way, sometimes with money income and sometimes with consumption.
2. The question about family income was not identical in all countries. In most cases, subjects indicated their household income on a 10 step scale, on which steps were defined in local currency.
Related variables:
Women's share in income; see topic Gender-equality
 Related topics:
Class difference		 Related themes:
Inequality

States of Nations is an inventory of country characteristics. It is part of the World Database of Happiness

Keywords added: Cross-national, Disparity, Inequality, Class, Gini