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svemagie e76ab2d43a feat: add DE-Wealth-Distribution, EU-Wealth-Inequality datasets + update repo docs
Two new datasets with source catalogs (DS-00019, DS-00020):
- DE-Wealth-Distribution: Wealth Gini 72.4% (PHF 2023), top shares, inheritance
- EU-Wealth-Inequality: Cross-country Gini comparison (50.8–72.6)

Updated README.md, Data/README.md, QUICK_REFERENCE.md to document all 24 datasets
(7 US + 16 DE + 1 EU), 20 source catalogs, and DE-Plan integration.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-04-23 12:03:44 +02:00

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EU Wealth Inequality — Source Catalog

Source ID: DS-00020 Record Created: 2026-04-23 Cataloger: Sven / PAI


Sources

ECB Household Finance and Consumption Survey (HFCS)

ECB Distributional Wealth Accounts (DWA)

Eurofound — Wealth Inequality Reports (2025)

World Inequality Database (WID)

  • URL: https://wid.world/
  • Auth: None
  • Coverage: Top-1% wealth shares per country (where available); national-accounts basis
  • Update frequency: Irregular

Dataset

Data/EU-Wealth-Inequality/EU-Wealth-Inequality.md

Connection to DE-Plan

CHALLENGE 4 (structural wealth precarity — Germany ranks worst in EU)