{"id":3380,"date":"2018-01-22T15:17:15","date_gmt":"2018-01-22T15:17:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/?p=3380"},"modified":"2024-11-26T17:49:11","modified_gmt":"2024-11-26T17:49:11","slug":"the-world-wealth-income-database","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/2018\/01\/22\/the-world-wealth-income-database\/","title":{"rendered":"The World Wealth and Income Database"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;font-size: 12pt\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">Launched in 2017 as a single point of access for statistics on <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/wid.world\/\">global inequality data<\/a>,\u00a0t<\/span><span style=\"color: black;font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif\">his great site is managed by an international consortium of economists including Thomas Piketty. It emerged from the earlier <\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">World Top Incomes Database (WTID).<br \/>\n<\/span>Its website\u00a0states its aims as providing <a href=\"http:\/\/wid.world\/document\/dinaguidelines-v1\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Distributional National Accounts (DINA)<\/a><span style=\"color: #000000\">, that is, to provide annual estimates of the distribution of income and wealth using concepts of income and wealth that are consistent with the macroeconomic national accounts.<br \/>\nThe site includes interactive maps of inequality, <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/wid.world\/research-tools\/\">research tools<\/a><span style=\"color: #000000\"> for students and journalists to create and manipulate their own data and datasets which can be downloaded.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Launched in 2017 as a single point of access for statistics on global inequality data,\u00a0this great site is managed by an international consortium of economists including Thomas Piketty. It emerged from the earlier World Top Incomes Database (WTID). Its website\u00a0states its aims as providing Distributional National Accounts (DINA), that is, to provide annual estimates of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":89,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,7,15],"tags":[277,204,72,276],"class_list":["post-3380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-finance","category-sociology","tag-income","tag-inequality","tag-poverty","tag-wealth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/89"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3380"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3380\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3382,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3380\/revisions\/3382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}