The Gini coefficient is ?

A. the ratio of the percentage of total income received by the top 20% of families to the percentage of total income received by by the bottom 20% of families

B. the most common way of representing the income distribution graphically

C. a commonly used measure of the degree of inequity in an income distribution

D. a commonly used measure of the degree of inequality in an income distribution

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