Policy impacts on inequality: Simple inequality measures

Guide

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This module from the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) demonstrates a range of ways to measure inequality by using the statistical concepts of location, shape and variability.

The guide illustrates with step-by-step examples the following measures: the range; the relative mean deviation; the variance; the coefficient of variation; and the standard deviation of logarithms.

Contents

  • Conceptual background
  • A step-by-step procedure to build simple inequality measures
  • A numerical example to calculate simple inequality measures
  • The main properties of simple inequality indexes
  • A synthesis

Sources

Bellù, L. G., & Liberati, P. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, (2006). Policy impacts on inequality simple inequality measures. Retrieved from website: https://www.fao.org/policy-support/tools-and-publications/resources-details/en/c/850058/

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