Table A.3
The sensitivity of income inequality indexes to top coding

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Table A.3
The sensitivity of income inequality indexes to top coding
Table summary
This table displays the results of The sensitivity of income inequality indexes to top coding 1995, 2000 and 2010, calculated using squared coefficient of variation, Gini coefficient, Theil index and mean log deviation units of measure (appearing as column headers).
  1995 2000 2010 1995 2000 2010 1995 2000 2010 1995 2000 2010
squared coefficient of variation Gini coefficient Theil index mean log deviation
No top coding  
All 0.935 2.080 1.665 0.343 0.368 0.372 0.221 0.286 0.281 0.242 0.281 0.281
Immigrants for 1 to 5 years 0.726 4.266 1.471 0.367 0.400 0.389 0.246 0.338 0.293 0.312 0.367 0.343
Immigrants for 5 to 10 years 0.781 1.439 0.912 0.364 0.390 0.387 0.240 0.289 0.269 0.303 0.360 0.362
Immigrants for 11 to 15 years 0.718 1.230 1.012 0.353 0.375 0.386 0.227 0.271 0.272 0.260 0.308 0.339
Long-term immigrants and the Canadian-born 0.928 2.053 1.666 0.338 0.364 0.367 0.215 0.280 0.276 0.232 0.270 0.269
Top coded at $1,000,000  
All 0.635 0.909 0.848 0.342 0.363 0.368 0.214 0.256 0.256 0.240 0.274 0.275
Immigrants for 1 to 5 years 0.682 1.006 0.848 0.367 0.394 0.387 0.245 0.291 0.277 0.312 0.357 0.339
Immigrants for 5 to 10 years 0.625 0.831 0.671 0.363 0.388 0.386 0.235 0.275 0.263 0.302 0.357 0.360
Immigrants for 11 to 15 years 0.648 0.811 0.730 0.353 0.373 0.384 0.224 0.256 0.262 0.260 0.304 0.336
Long-term immigrants and the Canadian-born 0.622 0.896 0.835 0.337 0.358 0.362 0.208 0.250 0.250 0.230 0.262 0.262
Top coded at $500,000  
All 0.552 0.698 0.675 0.340 0.359 0.364 0.207 0.239 0.241 0.238 0.268 0.269
Immigrants for 1 to 5 years 0.634 0.781 0.732 0.366 0.392 0.386 0.242 0.278 0.270 0.311 0.353 0.337
Immigrants for 5 to 10 years 0.582 0.702 0.622 0.363 0.386 0.385 0.233 0.268 0.260 0.301 0.354 0.359
Immigrants for 11 to 15 years 0.581 0.670 0.635 0.352 0.370 0.383 0.220 0.247 0.256 0.258 0.301 0.334
Long-term immigrants and the Canadian-born 0.538 0.684 0.660 0.335 0.354 0.358 0.202 0.233 0.234 0.228 0.256 0.256
Top coded at $300,000  
All 0.496 0.580 0.566 0.339 0.355 0.359 0.201 0.225 0.226 0.235 0.262 0.262
Immigrants for 1 to 5 years 0.596 0.690 0.671 0.365 0.390 0.384 0.239 0.270 0.264 0.310 0.350 0.335
Immigrants for 5 to 10 years 0.547 0.637 0.586 0.362 0.385 0.384 0.230 0.261 0.256 0.300 0.352 0.358
Immigrants for 11 to 15 years 0.527 0.594 0.585 0.350 0.368 0.381 0.214 0.239 0.250 0.256 0.298 0.331
Long-term immigrants and the Canadian-born 0.482 0.565 0.550 0.334 0.350 0.353 0.195 0.219 0.219 0.226 0.250 0.249
Source: Statistics Canada, Longitudinal Administrative Databank.
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