Sources

Overall Income Inequality: Gini Coefficient - Family market income

What is the source data that the Chartbook relies on? Gini coefficient for family market income. A single source series is used, taken from Björklund & Palme (2000), who link tax register data for 1951 and 1956 to data from the Swedish Level of Living Survey for 1967 and 1973.

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Overall Income Inequality: Gini Coefficient - Equivalised disposable household income ★

What is the source data that the Chartbook relies on? Gini coefficient for equivalised disposable household income from Statistics Sweden. We link back to a different vintage of the same source in 2013, then across subseries in 1989 to account for methodological changes.

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Top Income Shares: Share of top 1% - Pre-tax national income (equal-split adults) ★

What is the source data that the Chartbook relies on? Pre-tax national income share held by top percentile. A single source series is used, taken from WID.world. This data relates to individuals, assuming resources are split equally within couples.

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Top Income Shares: Share of top 1% - Post-tax national income (equal-split adults) ★

What is the source data that the Chartbook relies on? Post-tax national income share held by top percentile. A single source series is used, taken from WID.world. This data relates to individuals, assuming resources are split equally within couples.

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Top Income Shares: Share of top 1% - Pre-tax fiscal income (tax units, individuals) ★

What is the source data that the Chartbook relies on? Pre-tax fiscal income share held by top percentile. A single source series is used, taken from WID.world. Thisata relates to individuals over age 16 minus married women until 1950, individuals over age 16 minus married women with low or no income until 1970, then indviduals over age 16.

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Poverty: Share below Swedish Welfare Board line - Household income

What is the source data that the Chartbook relies on? Percentage of individuals living in households with equivalised disposable income below Swedish Welfare Board line. A single source series is used, taken from Statistics Sweden.

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Poverty: Share below 60% median - Equivalised household disposable income ★

What is the source data that the Chartbook relies on? Percentage of individuals living in households with equivalised disposable income below 60 per cent of the median. A single source series is used, taken from Statistics Sweden; figures from 2013 are based on the Incomes and taxes (IoS) survey, linked with no multiplier to figures from the Household Finances (HEK) survey for the years 1975-2013.

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Earnings Dispersion: Top decile as % median - Gross individual earnings ★

What is the source data that the Chartbook relies on? Gross individual earnings at top decile as percentage of median from OECD; linked at 2004 to the earlier series from Atkinson (2008), based on the Income Distribution Survey published in Statistiska Meddelanden HE21SM0601, Tabeller 27, 28, and 29.

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Wealth Inequality: Share of top 1% - Net wealth ★

What is the source data that the Chartbook relies on? Net wealth share held by wealthiest 1%. Since 2000, figures refer to individual total capitalized wealth, based on income and property tax registers, from Lundberg & Waldenström (2016); prior to 2000, figures refer to total household net marketable wealth at market values, based on wealth tax assessments, from Roine and Waldenström (2015).

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