Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Statistics Any one of the numbers or values in a series dividing the distribution of the individuals in the series into ten groups of equal frequency.
- n. Statistics Any one of the ten groups.
Wiktionary
- n. statistics Any of the values in a series that divides the distribution of individuals in that series into ten groups of equal frequency.
- n. Any one of the ten subsets or groups so divided.
- n. astrology An aspect or position of two planets when they are distant from each other a tenth part of the zodiac.
WordNet 3.0
- n. (statistics) any of nine points that divided a distribution of ranked scores into equal intervals where each interval contains one-tenth of the scores
Etymologies
- dec(i)- + -ile2. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Based on my experience, among those who work, the bottom decile is putting in at least as many hours – and a lot more labor – than the top decile. cmholm says:”
“While the absolute wealth of the top decile is huge and growing their relative wealth is continuing to grow and that is the greatest prize of all.”
“Even within that top "decile," the distribution is remarkably skewed.”
The Washington Post: The costs of rising economic inequality
“Of people in the top decile of religiosity, 61 percent say it is very important that their child marry within the faith, while another 21 percent say it is somewhat important.”
“While religious diversity loses a little luster among those with the highest levels of religiosity, they still endorse it overwhelmingly 74 percent of Americans in the top decile of religiosity see the good in religious diversity.”
“By “highly religious,” we mean people who rank in the top decile of the religiosity index discussed in Chapter 1, while “highly secular” means those in the bottom decile.”
“The top decile of this scale accounts for 27 percent of all evangelical Protestants.”
“The percentage loss in the richest decile group is higher than in all but the bottom three decile groups, but in fact this is largely driven by tax rises for the very richest approximately the top 1%.”
The Guardian: George Osborne given stark warning on cuts' impact
“The thinktank said the losses among this decile would be concentrated among the highest 1% of earners, due to the increase in the top rate of income tax to 50% for those earning more than £150,000, and the withdrawal of the personal income tax allowance and less generous pension relief for those earning more than £100,000.”
The Guardian: George Osborne given stark warning on cuts' impact
“Taking all family types together, within the bottom nine income decile groups, those with the lowest incomes are set to lose the most from these reforms as a percentage of income … Given that the annual welfare budget is being cut by £18bn, this is perhaps not a surprise.”
The Guardian: George Osborne given stark warning on cuts' impact
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