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Descriptor English: Gini Coefficient
Descriptor Spanish: Coeficiente de Gini
Descriptor coeficiente de Gini
Entry term(s) índice de Gini
Scope note: Indicador de desigualdad en la distribución de la renta que pretende sintetizar en un único valor la asimetría de esa distribución, asumiendo valores entre 0 (cuando todos los individuos tienen igual rendimiento) y 100 (cuando todo el rendimiento se concentra en un solo individuo).
Descriptor Portuguese: Coeficiente de Gini
Descriptor French: Coefficient de Gini
Entry term(s): Gini Index
Gini's Coefficient
Tree number(s): SP3.522.233.612.134
Scope note: An inequity indicator concerning the distribution of income, which synthesizes the asymmetry of such distribution in a single value, assuming values between 0 (when all individuals have equal income) and 100 (when all income is concentrated in a single individual). (From: http://hdl.handle.net/10400.26/17596)
Allowable Qualifiers: No qualifiers
History Note: 2019
DeCS ID: 57913
Unique ID: DDCS057913
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Gini Coefficient - Preferred
Concept UI FD00062184
Scope note An inequity indicator concerning the distribution of income, which synthesizes the asymmetry of such distribution in a single value, assuming values between 0 (when all individuals have equal income) and 100 (when all income is concentrated in a single individual). (From: http://hdl.handle.net/10400.26/17596)
Preferred term Gini Coefficient
Entry term(s) Gini Index
Gini's Coefficient



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