US_income {mosaicCalc}

Income distribution data from the US in 2009

Description

Data such as these are used to study income inequality. One measure of this is the "Gini coefficient," which can be estimated from a Lorenz function fitted to such data.

Usage

US_income

Format

An object of class tbl_df (inherits from tbl, data.frame) with 6 rows and 2 columns.

Source

La Haye and Zizler (2021) "The Lorenz Curve in the Classroom", The American Statistician, 75(2):217-225]

Variables:

• income The fraction of total household income that goes to the corresponding poorest fraction of the population.

• pop The fraction of the population whose aggregated income is reported as the income value.