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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
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## Sources
### ECB Household Finance and Consumption Survey (HFCS)
- **URL:** https://www.ecb.europa.eu/stats/ecb_surveys/hfcs/html/index.en.html
- **Statistical Tables PDF:** https://www.ecb.europa.eu/home/pdf/research/hfcn/HFCS_Statistical_Tables_Wave_2021_July2023.pdf
- **Auth:** None
- **Coverage:** Harmonized Eurozone-wide wealth survey; country-level Gini, percentile shares
- **Update frequency:** Triennial (Wave 4 = 2021)
### ECB Distributional Wealth Accounts (DWA)
- **URL:** https://data.ecb.europa.eu/data/data-categories/macroeconomic-and-sectoral-statistics/sector-accounts/distributional-wealth-accounts
- **Auth:** None
- **Coverage:** Top-5% and top-10% shares by country; quarterly
- **Update frequency:** Quarterly
### Eurofound — Wealth Inequality Reports (2025)
- **Gini by country:** https://www.eurofound.europa.eu/en/surveys-and-data/data-catalogue/net-wealth-inequality-eu-member-states-2010-and-2021-gini-index-
- **Wealth shares:** https://www.eurofound.europa.eu/en/surveys-and-data/data-catalogue/net-wealth-inequality-and-wealth-share-by-wealth-percentile-member-states-2021
- **Full report:** https://www.eurofound.europa.eu/en/publications/all/a-picture-of-wealth-inequality-across-eu-member-states
- **Auth:** None
- **Coverage:** Trend analysis 20102021; country visualizations; wealth shares by percentile
- **Update frequency:** Periodic reports
### 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)