On the CIA world factbook website I'm getting the following figures
for "Distribution of family income - Gini index"
	
JAPAN = 24.9 (1993)  
IRELAND = 35.9 (1987)
UK = 36.8 (1999)

But I need more recent figures than these three. 2005 figures or at
least something from the past 3 or 4 years (the more up-to-date the
better) are acceptable. Help!

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Request for Question Clarification by rainbow-ga on 25 Jul 2005 16:34 PDT

Hi tom2000,

The following is the UN Human Development Report 2004, which contains
Gini Index calculated for all countries.

http://hdr.undp.org/reports/global/2004/pdf/hdr04_HDI.pdf

(See pages 50-53)

Please let me know if this will suit your purposes.

Best regards,
Rainbow

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Clarification of Question by tom2000-ga on 26 Jul 2005 03:25 PDT

UNfortunately not. The numbers in there are more or less what I
already have and are just as old. All the figures given in the tables
are not based on figures produced in 2004 (see the column re: survey
year in those tables).

:-(

Anything else for me, Rainbow?

Tom

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Request for Question Clarification by rainbow-ga on 26 Jul 2005 05:02 PDT

Hi Tom,

The website I provided contains the most recent data available that I
was able to locate. Hopefully another researcher will have better
luck.

Best regards,
Rainbow

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Request for Question Clarification by pafalafa-ga on 26 Jul 2005 05:36 PDT

Here's slightly updated data from the World Bank:

http://www.worldbank.org/data/wdi2005/wditext/Table2_7.htm

but the Gini indexes are still rather dated.  'Fraid this might be the
best you can do, short of calculating the indexes yourself.


pafalafa-ga

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Clarification of Question by tom2000-ga on 26 Jul 2005 18:50 PDT

Thanks pafalafa. Your table does bring some stats up a year or two.
Will see if anyone else can provide anything more up-to-date....

Tom

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Request for Question Clarification by justaskscott-ga on 26 Jul 2005 19:20 PDT

The spreadsheet file available here contains Gini figures for more recent years:

"World Income Inequality Database V 2.0a June 2005"
World Institute for Development Economic Research (WIDER)
http://www.wider.unu.edu/wiid/wiid.htm

Would these figures be sufficient?

Hi Tom,

To make the answer official, here again is the page I found:

"World Income Inequality Database V 2.0a June 2005"
World Institute for Development Economic Research (WIDER)
http://www.wider.unu.edu/wiid/wiid.htm

- justaskscott


Search strategy --

I fortuitously found this page as a link from the Wikipedia article on
Gini coefficient (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gini_coefficient).

Good research work considering how tricky it proved for everyone to
come up with very recent figures!

Take care with the Wider figures -- when I've checked them in the
past, the figures in their reports were no more current than World
Bank or other orgs.

The figures appear more current to me.  Perhaps that's because this is
a newer version of the database (June 2005) than the one pafalafa had
seen.

I'll accept the much more up to date figures from justaskscott's
source (please post as an answer and claim the fee). Thank you
nevertheless pafalafa for the warning and your help.