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Abstract #301965

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Activity Number: 434
Type: Contributed
Date/Time: Thursday, August 12, 2004 : 10:30 AM to 12:20 PM
Sponsor: Section on Government Statistics
Abstract - #301965
Title: Representations of Inequality in the Context of Free Trade and Globalization
Author(s): Hugh Peach*+ and Howard Reichmuth and Ryan N. Miller
Companies: H. Gil Peach & Associates LLC and Scan America and Scan America
Address: 16232 NW Oakhills Dr., Beaverton, OR, 97006,
Keywords: job structure ; income inequality ; globalization ; graphical approach ; method
Abstract:

Some years ago Amstat News published an article on Lenin and statistics. Lenin used graphical methods to show the extreme inequality of land ownership in Czarist Russia. With degradation of the job structure of the U.S., due to globalization, the graphical representation of income inequality approximates the graph of land ownership in pre-revolutionary Russia. Of course, wealth and income are different but both may be taken as proximate indicators of social well-being. We contrast standard graphical approaches to representation of inequality. We introduce the "income donut" representation and then develop the method of "sector maps," a graphical approach to demonstrate the increasing unaffordability of natural gas, electric, and water bills in the context of increasing deterioration of jobs and incomes.

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