Subsequently, the 1992 and 1995 surveys - and here our data are statistically more comparable from survey to survey than they were earlier - showed that wealth inequality remained little changed in terms of the broad measures.1 Nonetheless, that stability masks considerable churning among the subgroups.
One particularly notable change was an apparent rise in the share of wealth held by the wealthiest families at the expense of other wealthy families; most of the change occurred within the top 10 percent of the distribution.