Income Inequality (1947-1998)

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    The Changing Shape of the Nation's Income Distribution, 1947-98 (P60-204) 
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  Text version of the report. 
  Figure 1.  Change in Income Inequality for Families:  1947-1998.
  Figure 2.  Gini Coefficient for Earnings of Men and Women, Full-Time Year-Round Workers:
                      1967-1998.
  Figure 7.  Gini Coefficients for Total and After-Tax Household Income: 1993-1998.

  Table 1.    Measures of Individual Earnings Inequality for Full-Time, Year-Round Workers for Both
                      Men and Women: 1967-1998.
  Table 2.    Household Shares of Aggregate Income by Fifths of the Income Distribution: 1967-1998.
  Table 3.    Household Income Limits by Percentile: 1967-1998.
  Table 4.    Measures of Household Income Inequality: 1967-1998.

Note: Updates to tables 1 through 4 can be found at www.census.gov/hhes/income/histinc/ineqtoc.html.
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Created: August 3, 2000
Last Revised: August 13, 2008

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