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| Title |
The stability of income inequality in Brazil, 2006-2012: an estimate using income tax data and household surveys
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| Published in |
Ciência & Saúde Coletiva, April 2015
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| DOI | 10.1590/1413-81232015204.00362014 |
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| Authors |
Marcelo Medeiros, Pedro Herculano Guimarães Ferreira de Souza, Fábio Ávila de Castro |
| Abstract |
the level and evolution of income inequality among adults in Brazil between 2006 and 2012. to calculate the level of inequality, its trend over the years and the share of income growth appropriated by different social groups. We combined tax data from the Annual Personal Income Tax Returns (Declaração Anual de Ajuste do Imposto de Renda da Pessoa Física - DIRPF) and the Brazilian National Household Survey (Pesquisa Nacional por Amostra de Domicílios - PNAD) to construct a complete distribution of total income among adults in Brazil. We applied Pareto interpolations to income tax tabulations to arrive at the distribution within income groups. We tested the results, comparing the PNAD to the Brazilian Consumption and Expenditure Survey (Pesquisa de Orçamentos Familiares - POF) and to data from the Census Subsample Survey (Census. We found evidence that income inequality in Brazil is higher than previously thought and that it remained stable between 2006 and 2012; in making these findings, we thus diverged from most studies on the dynamics of inequality in Brazil.. There was income growth, but the top incomes have appropriated most of this growth. |
X Demographics
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Brazil | 6 | 26% |
| United Kingdom | 2 | 9% |
| United States | 2 | 9% |
| South Africa | 1 | 4% |
| Australia | 1 | 4% |
| Canada | 1 | 4% |
| Unknown | 10 | 43% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 15 | 65% |
| Scientists | 7 | 30% |
| Science communicators (journalists, bloggers, editors) | 1 | 4% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 55 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Unknown | 55 | 100% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Bachelor | 11 | 20% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 9 | 16% |
| Student > Master | 8 | 15% |
| Professor | 6 | 11% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 5 | 9% |
| Other | 5 | 9% |
| Unknown | 11 | 20% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Social Sciences | 20 | 36% |
| Economics, Econometrics and Finance | 16 | 29% |
| Medicine and Dentistry | 4 | 7% |
| Earth and Planetary Sciences | 2 | 4% |
| Arts and Humanities | 1 | 2% |
| Other | 1 | 2% |
| Unknown | 11 | 20% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 19. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 10 March 2020.
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