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 Gini coefficient of net monetary income per equivalent adult (%)
Characteristic Description
Name Gini coefficient of net monetary income per equivalent adult (%) by Place of residence (NUTS - 2013); Annual
Regularity Annual
Source Statistics Portugal, Statistics on income and living conditions
First available period 2003
Last available period 2022
Dimensions
  • Data reference period
  • Place of residence (NUTS - 2013)
Concepts
  • REFERENCE PERIOD:  Period to which the information refers and which may be a specific day or a time interval (month, fiscal year, calendar year, among others).
  • HOUSEHOLD NET MONETARY INCOME:  Monetary income received by the household as a whole and by each of its members, from work (employee income and income from self-employment), from other private income sources (capital and property income, private transfers received) and from pensions and other social transfers, net of income taxes and social security contributions.
  • PRIVATE HOUSEHOLD:  A group of people living at the same dwelling, with either "de jure" or "de facto" family relationships,occupying the all or part of a dwelling; or a single person that fully or partly accupies a dwelling.
Definition Gini coefficient is an indicator of inequality in the distribution of income that aims to synthesize in a single value the asymmetry of that distribution. Assumes values between 0 (when all individuals have equal income) and 100 (when all income is concentrated on a single individual)
Measure unit (symbol) Percentage (%)
Power of 10  0
Observations The methodology for obtaining the disposable income, which is now including pensions from individual private plans, has changed in the current exercise, as introduced by Eurostat.. In consequence, all indicators were revised in order to take this new and more extensive version of the households disposable income, with a retrospective impact to the whole series.
Last update date 26/06/2024


information presented in 24/11/2024