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The Standardized World Income Inequality Database
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The Standardized World Income Inequality Database

Frederick Solt
Social Science Quarterly, Vol.97(5), pp.1267-1281
2016
DOI: 10.1111/ssqu.12295

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Abstract

Since 2008, the Standardized World Income Inequality Database (SWIID) has provided income inequality data that seek to maximize comparability while providing the broadest possible coverage of countries and years. This article describes the current SWIID's construction, highlighting differences from its original version, and reevaluates the SWIID's utility to cross‐national income inequality research in light of recently available alternatives.

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