Syllabus: Indicators of income equity
Syllabus: Analyse data on relative income shares of given percentages of the population, including deciles and quintiles.
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Ans: Approximately 10% to 18% therefore they receive approximately 8%. You may find it better to draw this accurately on graph paper.
What is the share of income of the 7th Decile?
Quintiles are when the data is in fifths - you can see this in the interactive diagram by referring to the numbers (0 to 20 is the first quintile). So use the diagram again, this time to discover what share of income the third quintile has.
This should be quite straightforward for you all - let your teacher know if it is not.
Syllabus: Draw a Lorenz curve and explain its significance.
First a note on the command term Draw
The syllabus explanation of `draw´ is: Represent by means of a labelled, accurate diagram or graph, using a pencil. A ruler (straight edge) should be used for straight lines. Diagrams should be drawn to scale. Graphs should have (if appropriate) and joined in a straight line or smooth curve. |
The command words Analyse and Draw
suggests they are likely to test knowledge and understanding of the
Lorenz Curve and Gini Coefficient on Paper 3. In a full paper 3
question I can see a possiblity of you having to plot and draw a Lorenz
curve from given data, interpret the diagram, calculate the Gini
Coefficient and explain its significance, especially comparing it with
other given gini coefficients.
Syllabus: Explain how the Gini coefficient is derived and interpreted.
However, it is not beyond the realms of possibilities that it could be an essay in Paper 1 and for that you would need to be able to sketch out an illustration of a Lorenz Curve so you are able to use it to explain what is meant by the Gini Coefficient.
Possible Essay question:
a) Using an appropriate diagram explain what is meant by a Gini Coefficient. (10 marks)
Essay questions part (b) are based around higher order command words like evaluate and discuss and your syllabus says:
Syllabus: Evaluate government policies to promote equity (taxation, government expenditure and transfer payments) in terms of their potential positive or negative effects on efficiency in the allocation of resources.
Each of these policies are covered in detail in the pages ahead.
So an obvious part (b) addition to the part (a) above would be
b) Evaluate government policies to make the distribution of income more equitable (15 marks)
Try writing this out and giving to your teacher for marking.
Task
Use the web and perhaps the web site of the statistics office for the country where you live to try to find Gini coefficient data. This may be difficult and if you can't find it, try broadening the search for any other country to compare it with the sample UK data given above.n