Property talk:P1125
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measure of statistical dispersion intended to represent the income distribution of a nation's residents
Description | Measurement of income inequality of a country, region, etc. (Gini coefficient (Q162455)) | |||||||||
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Represents | Gini coefficient (Q162455) | |||||||||
Data type | Quantity | |||||||||
Domain | country, region, etc., but not limited to those (note: this should be moved to the property statements) | |||||||||
Allowed values | According to this template:
number between 0 and 1
According to statements in the property:
When possible, data should only be stored as statements0 ≤ 𝓧 ≤ 100 | |||||||||
Allowed units | not applicable | |||||||||
Example | According to this template:
According to statements in the property:
When possible, data should only be stored as statementsUnited States of America (Q30) → 41.5 Germany (Q183) → 28 South Africa (Q258) → 63 | |||||||||
Source | World Bank GINI index CIA World Factbook | |||||||||
Tracking: usage | Category:Pages using Wikidata property P1125 (Q62809516) | |||||||||
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Proposal discussion | Proposal discussion | |||||||||
Current uses |
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List of violations of this constraint: Database reports/Constraint violations/P1125#Range
List of violations of this constraint: Database reports/Constraint violations/P1125#single best value, SPARQL
List of violations of this constraint: Database reports/Constraint violations/P1125#Units
List of violations of this constraint: Database reports/Constraint violations/P1125#Entity types
This property is being used by:
Please notify projects that use this property before big changes (renaming, deletion, merge with another property, etc.) |
This property is actually quite vague and not used consistently at present edit
The Gini Coefficient is a mathematical property of an set of numbers. But this property (Gini coefficient (P1125)) does not seem to actually specify quite what those numbers are. For example you might do a Gini coefficient of household incomes, or of individual incomes, or of individual incomes for the working population, or the whole population. You could also use measures of wealth versus income and get wildly different results. There are also different ways of presenting the number; either as the actual coefficient in the range 0-1 or as a percentage in the range 0%-100%. The current constraint expecting 0-100 does not rule out the 0-1 range which is used for example on Taiwan (Q865) without a warning. The English Wikipedia page also uses both styles (coefficient and percentage) without any consistency. Nate Wessel (talk) 19:30, 3 August 2021 (UTC)