An understanding of the "fairness" of a tariff or price schedule can be useful for many
types of policy analysis. The Gini coefficient is suggested as one way to assess fairness
where user groups are well defined. The Gini coefficient is calculated for a sample of
California water purveyors over a ten-year period.
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