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Policy Impacts on Inequality: Simple Inequality Measures. EASYPol Series 080
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This module illustrates the simplest ways to measure inequality drawing on the statistical concepts of location, shape and variability. In particular, the following measures will be addressed: a) the range; b) the relative mean deviation; c) the variance; d) the coefficient of variation; and e) the standard deviation of logharitms. For all these measures, step-by-step procedures and numerical examples are also discussed.
For more information, see also:
- Charting Income Inequality. The Lorenz Curve. EASYPol Series 000
- Social Welfare Analysis of Income Distributions: Ranking Income Distributions with Lorenz Curves. EASYPol Series 001
- Policy Impacts on Inequality: Inequality and Axioms for its Measurement. EASYPol Series 054
This paper is part of the FAO Policy series: EASYPol-Resources for policy making (in agriculture, rural development and food security). To find other EASYPol series' resources, go to the Policy Support and Governance website>Resources and type "EASYPol" in the free text search.
Date
2006
Publisher
Bellu, L.G., Liberati, P.
Region
Global