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Summary features of WIID2c
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Summary features of WIID2c
Countries or areas included 159
East Asia and Pacific 14
Eastern Europe and Central Asia 27
Latin America and Caribbean 26
Middle East and North Africa 11
OECD 32
South Asia 6
Sub-Saharan Africa 43
Observations
Gini coefficients 5313
Income distribution by any quantile share 2985
Time span
Before 1960 305
1960-1979 1419
1980-1989 1084
1990-1999 1806
2000-2006 699
Quality ratings
1 survey and income concept known and ok 1401
2 survey or income concept not known or ok 1641
3 neither survey nor income concept known or ok 1871
4 memorandum item 400
We thank Klaus Deininger and Kihoon Lee from the World Bank and Lyn Squire from the Global Development Network for providing us with an update of the Deininger & Squire database, an update not published elsewhere. We are also grateful to Giovanni Andrea Cornia and his research assistant Luca Tiberti for providing us with their update of WIID. We thank the staff at UNICEF-ICDC in Florence for kindly providing us with additional details about the Transmonee data. Finally, several persons have contributed with data or comments: Peter Bolliger (Swiss Federal Statistical Office), Wim Bos (Statistics Netherlands), Andrea Brandolini (Bank of Italy), Kwang Soo Cheong (Johns Hopkins University), Jon Epland (Statistics Norway), Francisco J. Goerlich Gisbert (University of Valencia), Lee Rainwater (Harvard University and Luxembourg Income Study (retired)) and Timothy Smeeding (Maxwell Center for Policy Research and Luxembourg Income Study).