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Two of the most commonly used income distribution measures are the shares of aggregate household income received by each quintile and the Gini index. In addition to these two measures, the Census Bureau also produces estimates of the ratio of income percentiles; the Theil index, the mean logarithmic deviation of income (MLD), and the Atkinson measure.
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