Poverty gap entire population

Quick info
Data type	Numeric
Scale	Metric
Value labels	not applicable
Technical name	socstr_povgaptpop_oecd
Category	Social structure
Label	Poverty gap entire population
Related indicators	Poverty gap at dollar 1.90 a day (2011 PPP) (%) Poverty gap at dollar 3.20 a day (2011 PPP) (%)

This indicator measures the poverty gap of an entire population. The poverty line is defined as half the median household income of the total population.

Coding rules

Ratio = (households with mean income below the poverty line / households with mean income above the poverty line)

Bibliographic info

Citation:

• Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. (2018). Country statistical profiles: Key tables from OECD. Retrieved from https://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/economics/country -statistical-profiles-key-tables-from-oecd_20752288 doi: 10.1787/20752288

Related publications:

Misc

Project manager(s):

• Jean-Yves Gerlitz
• Karolin Meyer

Data release:

• Version 0.001: Initial release

Revisions:

• No revisions yet

Sources

• Teorell, Jan, Stefan Dahlberg, Sören Holmberg, Bo Rothstein, Natalia Alvarado Pachon and Richard Svensson. 2019. The Quality of Government Standard Dataset, version Jan19. University of Gothenburg: The Quality of Government Institute. http://www.qog.pol.gu.se doi:10.18157/qogstdjan19