Socio-economic profile of income distribution in turkey

The aim of this study is to analyze the distribution of economic growth and welfare increase that have been performing in Turkey since 2002 among households with different socio-economic profile. For this purpose, the income inequality is decomposed by subgroups according to head of household's demographic variables such as education level, age, gender, occupation, working sector, and living area by calculating the Theil index using the 2003-2012 Household Budget Survey data conducted on resident households in Turkey. Thus the pattern of the income inequality between and within these subgroups could be observed during the corresponding term. The first main findings obtained from this study is that there is no role of the decreasing inequality between male and female on reducing the overall inequality, second is that households earning income from real estate, rental, and business activities is the highest group having income inequality within the group.