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Date November 2022 Marks available [Maximum mark: 2] Reference code 22N.3.HL.TZ0.a.vi
Level HL Paper 3 Time zone TZ0
Command term Construct Question number a.vi Adapted from N/A
a.vi.
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22N.3.HL.TZ0.a.vi

Table 5 shows the income earned by different quintiles of Turkey’s population for 2017.

Table 5


[Source: Kayikci, H., 2019. Course of Income Inequality in Turkey. Theoretical Economics Letters, 9, 2085–2092.]

Using the income distribution information in Table 5, construct a fully labelled Lorenz curve diagram for Turkey in 2017.

[2]

Markscheme

For constructing a Lorenz curve below the diagonal (which need not be drawn) with correct labels on the axes [1]

For an accurately constructed Lorenz curve [1]

The vertical axis should be labelled cumulative % of income, or % of income and the horizontal axis should be cumulative % of population or % of population. A title is not necessary.

{correct points: (0,0); (20, 6.20); (40, 17.00); (60, 31.80); (80, 52.40); (100,100)}

Examiners report

The majority of candidates earned full marks for this question. There were some labelling errors such as "wealth distribution" or the omission of the percentage sign while a small number of candidates plotted data incorrectly by neglecting to calculate cumulative data.

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