inc_ineq: Income and Inequality Data
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Income and Inequality Data
Description
This merges the Gini coefficient measured in disposable income from the
Standardized World Income Inequality Data (Solt, 2020) with GDP and population
data from the Penn World Tables version 10 (Feenstra et. al., 2015).
Format
A data frame with 12810 rows and 6 variables
- country
Country Name
- year
Year
- rgdpe
Expenditure-side real GDP at chained PPPs (in mil. 2017 US Dollars).
Useful for making cross-country/cross-time comparisons of relative living standards. [PWT]
- pop
Population in millions. [PWT]
- gdp_cap
GDP divided by population from PWT.
- gini
Gini Coefficient (Disposable Income) [SWIID]
References
Feenstra, Robert C., Robert Inklaar and Marcel P. Timmer (2015), "The Next Generation of the Penn World Table" American Economic Review, 105(10), 3150-3182, available for download at https://www.rug.nl/ggdc/productivity/pwt/.
Solt, Frederick. 2020. "Measuring Income Inequality Across Countries and Over Time: The Standardized World Income Inequality Database." Social Science Quarterly 101(3):1183-1199. SWIID Version 9.0, October 2020.
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Income and Inequality Data
Description
This merges the Gini coefficient measured in disposable income from the Standardized World Income Inequality Data (Solt, 2020) with GDP and population data from the Penn World Tables version 10 (Feenstra et. al., 2015).
Format
A data frame with 12810 rows and 6 variables
- country
Country Name
- year
Year
- rgdpe
Expenditure-side real GDP at chained PPPs (in mil. 2017 US Dollars). Useful for making cross-country/cross-time comparisons of relative living standards. [PWT]
- pop
Population in millions. [PWT]
- gdp_cap
GDP divided by population from PWT.
- gini
Gini Coefficient (Disposable Income) [SWIID]
References
Feenstra, Robert C., Robert Inklaar and Marcel P. Timmer (2015), "The Next Generation of the Penn World Table" American Economic Review, 105(10), 3150-3182, available for download at https://www.rug.nl/ggdc/productivity/pwt/.
Solt, Frederick. 2020. "Measuring Income Inequality Across Countries and Over Time: The Standardized World Income Inequality Database." Social Science Quarterly 101(3):1183-1199. SWIID Version 9.0, October 2020.
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