A recent study found Arkansas near the top for income inequality. A study by personal finance site GoBankingRates.com found that Arkansas ranked eighth out of the 50 states for income inequality.

The Gini coefficient, a 101-year-old statistical tool that can be applied to many different indicators, is among the most widely used measures of income inequality around the world.

But by European standards, the UK figure is exceptionally high. Sweden has a Gini coefficient of 0.23, Germany 0.283 and in France the figure is 0.327.

The Gini Coefficient, the flawed metric behind this damaging myth, ignores billions in black wealth, millions of social grants, and one of Africa’s fastest-growing middle classes.

Since 2000 the NBS has published a Gini coefficient that focused on rural income and that stood at 0.3897 in 2011. The coefficient measures income distribution on a scale of zero to one.

The Gini index, or Gini coefficient, is a summary measure of income inequality representing how income distribution varies compared with an equal outcome. States with the lowest Gini index figures ...

"The nationwide survey, which will provide basic data for China's Gini coefficient calculation, will cover about 140,000 urban and rural households, and the gathering and use of data will conform ...

"The nationwide survey, which will provide basic data for China's Gini coefficient calculation, will cover about 140,000 urban and rural households, and the gathering and use of data will conform ...