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    "name": "Family Income Inequality (Gini)",
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        "reason": "Census changed its income collection method and raised reporting limits for 1993 data, and says comparisons of income inequality that bridge 1992 and 1993 should be avoided.",
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        "reason": "Census Table F-4 gives two 2013 family Gini estimates, from the legacy and the redesigned income questions; the stored 2013 value is the redesigned estimate, comparable with later years, not earlier ones.",
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        "date": "2017-01-01",
        "reason": "Census Table F-4 gives two 2017 family Gini estimates; the stored updated-processing value (0.458) is for comparison with 2018 and later, and the legacy value (0.449) for earlier years.",
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    "attribution": "American Default (americandefault.org) — Our analysis is free to use with attribution to American Default Research. Source data stays under each publisher's terms; cite the source named here."
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