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Data on World City Level Inequality (Gini Coefficients) aggregated for use in the UN-HABITAT's State of the World Cities Report 2010/2011. A version of this data is in the appendix of the report.
Created by me with other staff of UN-HABITAT.
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The state of the world's cities report (linked on the left) has a box on inequality in the US. Otherwise you can use the iPUMS microdata to create gini coefficients for cities. I should have R code somewhere to do it.
I'm a novice. What are iPUMS microdata?
They are the released survey data from individuals. Simplifying; to get GINI coefficients you have to basically sum up incomes for individuals and calculate the amount of wealth the lower and upper quantiles have. Instead Read page 80 here and follow up the sources in that box. http://books.google.com/books?id=broGtXylVF8C&lpg=PP1&pg=PA80#v=onepage&q=United%20States&f=false
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Smallest gini award goes to Beijing! Can someone who has lived in Beijing comment on the plausibility of this?
Also one other factor: its almost non-sensical to compare income vs consumption GINI's you can get a general picture; but that's another factor that goes into it.
You know that was very striking to me (and UN-HABITAT) as well. Partly it's a result of the system (Hukou) the Chinese keep rural people from migrating to cities.
I'm sure that keeps a good portion of the within city inequality down.
I think this chapter talks about it some: http://books.google.com/books?id=broGtXylVF8C&pg=PA60&source=gbs_toc_r&cad=4#v=onepage&q&f=false
Does anyone know of other datasets available that provide more detail about inequality in cities in North America?