According to the GE(1) measure, inequality within racial groups contributed 48% to overall inequality in 1993. By 2008 this figure had risen to almost 62%. In an article in which the conventional interpretation of the between-group measures of the general entropy decomposition of inequality is challenged and extended, (Elbers, Lanjouw, Mistiaen, & Ozler, 2008) it is posited that it may be instructive to view between-group inequality as a percentage of the maximum possible level of between-group inequality that can be counterfactually constructed from the data while retaining the same number of groups and their relative sizes as well as the same income distribution. A key idea behind this assertion is the fact that total inequality is effectively “a measure of between-group inequality that would be observed if every household in the population constituted a separate group” (Elbers, Lanjouw, Mistiaen, & Ozler, 2008).