quintile

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The majority of the bottom quintile do not stay in the bottom quintile.

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Quick take

(statistics) Any of the quantiles which divide an ordered sample population into five equally numerous subsets.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of quintile gathered in one view.

noun

(statistics) Any of the quantiles which divide an ordered sample population into five equally numerous subsets.

noun

(by extension) A subset thus obtained.

noun

(astrology) An aspect of planets that are distant from each other by one fifth of a zodiac (72°)

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for quintile.

noun

(statistics) Any of the quantiles which divide an ordered sample population into five equally numerous subsets.

noun

(by extension) A subset thus obtained.

noun

(astrology) An aspect of planets that are distant from each other by one fifth of a zodiac (72°)

Example sentences

The majority of the bottom quintile do not stay in the bottom quintile.

Only 11 percent of enlisted recruits in 2007 came from the poorest one-fifth (quintile) of neighborhoods, while 25 percent came from the wealthiest quintile.

If a quintile here takes $40K to move across and only $30K in another country, you can have people here with more dollar mobility and less quintile mobility.

In general, if you are born poor, you're quite unlikely to ever reach the top quintile of income.

They found that only 11% of enlisted recruits came from the poorest quintile of neighbourhoods in the US.

Please check your source for your claim and see if they measure by quintile or by PPP adjusted dollars.

If top quintile owns 35% and bottom two own 25% (perhaps 15% and 10%, respectively)...that means the richest would own 3.5x more than the poorest, on average.

In the 2000 Bay Area Travel Survey, driving was a minority share of trips for people in the bottom income quintile.

Out of curiosity, what happens to the bottom quintile in those three cases?

In the bottom quintile in San Jose has a 12.9% chance of making it to the top, Houston is 9.3% (nearly the same as Sacramento).

And I would love to see the chance to make $1e6 dollars per economic quintile.

Here [8] is an overview of some issues and references to papers showing how the results change if talking about quintile mobility or dollar mobility.

Quote examples

According to the Census Bureau, 64 million Americans currently live in the bottom quintile." Seems like a perfectly reasonable statement.

To give some sense of perspective on just how many people suffer from the problems currently afflicting the bottom quintile, that's a full 64 million people whose lives are not great."?

But in context: "For those in the bottom quintile, household income in inflation-adjusted dollars has dropped sharply, from $13,787 in 2000 to $11,651 in 2013.

Perhaps this should be understood as "You already know, or have been/will be convinced by the rest of this article, that in the current world, life for the bottom quintile of Americans is not great.