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Robert — (archived)

Thanks for the link. The raw data spreadsheets are going to prove useful, and interesting too.

I took a quick run at the generosity-by-income question using the 2004 data, which is divided into three income levels for better granularity. This is at income levels over $75K based on itemized deductions, so it doesn't shed any light on the question of how much people give at lower income levels.

With data for 50 states it would be a nightmare to convert the entire spreadsheet to HTML. But the average data for the US is:

$75K-100K: 3.23%
$100K-200K: 2.97%
> $200K: 3.74%

Interesting dip there in the upper-middle-class. I'd guess ambitious people putting the pedal to the metal with high lifestyle and career expenditures.

The data's not granular enough for my liking, because "> $200K" is something like the top 10% and the average obscures potentially interesting percentiles. And, of course, it's missing the salt of the earth, the < $75K group, which is a majority of the population. But with those caveats, the data does seem to show a slight increase (0.5%) in generosity when people go from comfortable to wealthy.

Hey, you won one (with qualifications). How often does that happen?

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