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Distribution of income in the United States of America from 1967 through 2003. Numbers are normalized to 2003 United States dollars. The data source is DeNavas-Walt, Carmen; Bernadette D. Proctor, Robert J. Mills (08 2004). Table A-3: Selected Measures of Household Income Dispersion: 1967 to 2003 (PDF) (English). Income, Poverty, and Health Insurance Coverage in the United States: 2003 36-37. U.S. Census Bureau. Retrieved on 2007-06-16.

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The data file entitled "income-distribution-data" is as follows:

# Income, Poverty, and Health Insurance Coverage in the United States: 2003
# Carmen DeNavas-Walt, Bernadette D. Proctor, Robert J. Mills
# August 2004
# U.S. Census Bureau
# U.S. Department of Commerce
# Table A-3: Selected Measures of Household Income Dispersion: 1967 to 2003
# pages 36-37

# Household Income at Selected Percentiles

#                      Percentile                                       
#                      (median)
#Year   10th    20th    50th    80th    90th    95th
1967    7790    14002   33338   55265   70443   88678
1968    8472    14912   34746   56937   71799   89076
1969    8600    15369   36074   59772   76117   93743
1970    8435    15126   35832   60148   76719   95090
1971    8446    14927   35463   59708   76599   94818
1972    9009    15434   36953   62878   80793   101215
1973    9314    15844   37700   64500   82360   102243
1974    9401    16064   36537   63477   81577   101433
1975    9125    15143   35559   61765   78652   98484
1976    9168    15615   36155   63247   80701   100839
1977    9259    15573   36359   64564   81742   104377
1978    9745    16398   38693   67874   87110   109348
1979    9589    16457   38649   68318   88588   111445
1980    9515    15977   37447   67028   86692   108894
1981    9280    15772   36868   66878   86401   108822
1982    9216    15548   36811   66920   87717   111516
1983    9167    15769   36593   68154   88712   113187
1984    9542    16175   37767   70092   92299   117253
1985    9583    16306   38510   71433   93483   119459
1986    9526    16586   39868   73853   97043   125264
1987    9452    16724   40357   74893   98333   125321
1988    9817    17006   40678   75593   101339  127958
1989    10315   17329   41411   76946   103865  131443
1990    9965    17059   40865   75341   101857  129307
1991    9776    16580   39679   74759   100833  126969
1992    9655    16190   39364   74533   101023  127230
1993    9635    16256   39165   75594   103010  131178
1994    9914    16484   39613   77154   104890  134835
1995    10501   17261   40845   78061   106436  135448
1996    10474   17239   41431   79395   108450  139541
1997    10588   17601   42294   81719   112241  144636
1998    10979   18164   43825   84529   114396  148995
1999    11420   18915   44922   87459   118969  156744
2000    11304   19142   44853   87341   119636  155121
2001    11105   18674   43882   86771   118080  156395
2002    10863   18326   43381   85941   116726  153438
2003    10536   17984   43318   86867   118200  154120

The command file (entitled "commands") is as follow:

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set grid back lw 1
set border 3
set ytics nomirror
set xtics nomirror
set key top left Left reverse width -8 spacing 0.5 samplen 1 
set ylabel "Income in 2003 US$" font "Arial,24" 1,0
set size ratio 0.4
# Skipping linetype (lt) 4; it's cyan and not very dark against white backgrounds.
plot "income-distribution-data" using 1:7 with lines lw 2 lt 7 title "95th percentile", "income-distribution-data" using 1:6 with lines lw 2 lt 6 title "90th percentile", "income-distribution-data" using 1:5 with lines lw 2 lt 5 title "80th percentile", "income-distribution-data" using 1:4 with lines lw 2 lt 3 title "50th percentile", "income-distribution-data" using 1:3 with lines lw 2 lt 2 title "20th percentile", "income-distribution-data" using 1:2 with lines lw 2 lt 1 title "10th percentile"

The output was generated with

gnuplot < commands > out.svg

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	Date/Time	Dimensions	User	Comment
current	17:09, 16 June 2007	1,000×400 (14 KB)	Alan De Smet (Talk \| contribs)	(Fix wonky overlarge key box.)
	17:02, 16 June 2007	1,000×400 (14 KB)	Alan De Smet (Talk \| contribs)	(Make legend bigger)
	16:58, 16 June 2007	1,000×400 (14 KB)	Alan De Smet (Talk \| contribs)	(Correct labelling.)
	16:44, 16 June 2007	1,000×400 (14 KB)	Alan De Smet (Talk \| contribs)	(Minor tweak to last, hoping to fix aspect ratio problem.)
	16:41, 16 June 2007	256×256 (14 KB)	Alan De Smet (Talk \| contribs)	(Distribution of income in the United States of America from 1967 through 2003. The data source is {{cite web \| url = http://www.census.gov/prod/2004pubs/p60-226.pdf \| title = Table A-3: Selected Measures of Household Income Dispersion: 1967 to 2003 \|)