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07756: Measures of income despersion. Household equivalent income (EU-scale) between persons 1986 - 2022

Elisabeth Omholt, Statistics Norway
+47 930 55 528
Aurora Hattrem, Statistics Norway
+47 90 40 74 24
Jon Epland, Statistics Norway
+47 56 57 20 84
Lene Sandvik, Statistics Norway
+47 90 13 16 16
2023-12-19 08:00
Gini coefficient:
gini coefficient
Standard error of the Gini coefficient:
standard error
P90/P10:
percentile ratio
S80/S20:
percentile ratio
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Negative amounts have been set to zero. Figures for 2020 were corrected on September 2, 2022. Salary compensation for those who are temporarily laid off ('lønnskompensasjon') was included twice in the calculation of total income, and thus figures for total income were about 7 billion NOK too high.

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Gini coefficient

The Gini coefficient is a number between 0 and 1 that measures the degree of inequality in the distribution of earnings, where 0 corresponds with perfect equality and 1 corresponds with perfect inequality.

P90/P10

P90/P10 refers to the percintile ratio of the 9th and the 1st decile cut-offs.

S80/S20

S80/S20 refers to the ratio of the share of income held by the top 20 percent of the distribution and bottom 20 persent of the distribution.