Sains Malaysiana, 2018;47:2187-2194.

Abstract

Malaysian Household Income Survey data provided by the Malaysian Department of Statistics is used to provide evidence
that the upper tails of the household income distribution follows a fractal based distribution known as power-law.
Inequality measures are then applied to ascertain the levels of inequality based on this distribution. In addition to that,
we analyzed the data in terms of different classes of occupation, obtained power-law exponents for each class and then
highlighted the inequality between these classes.