Info for indicator - Gini index

Definition:	The Gini index is a measure of income inequality. Zero means perfect equality (everyone has the same income) and 100 means perfect inequality (one person has all the income, everyone else has nothing).
Source:	Eurostat New Cronos database; Eurostat, online database, http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu, extraction: 11.03.2007 (*)
Weight:	Weighting has been applied to key variables to rebalance any differences between the distribution of population sub-groups in the sample and in the total population.
Sample:	not reported
Unit:	Gini index [0-100]
Comment:	Data for ES, SE (2002); BE, DK, IE, EL, LU, AT (2003); EE, ES, FR, IT, PT, FI, SE (2004); CZ, DE, IT, CY, LV, LT, HU, MT, NL, PL, SK (2005) - break in series; data for NL (2002 and 2003); HU (2005) are provisional data; data for EU15 and EU25 (2003-2005) are Eurostate estimates. Data for 2002 are revised data as of 11.03.2007 from Eurostat, online database.

(*) Disclaimer : For some indicators two different data sources have been used. The question is the same, but the time and the method for data collection, e.g. sample size, could be different. Therefore some caution is needed in the interpretation of the time series where different data sources have been used.

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