Besides the countries already mentioned, this was found to be the case in the Plurinational State of Bolivia and Chile, which improved their distributional situation between the mid- and late 2000s. The periods analysed are those when income distribution improved most significantly in 15 countries of the region. The factors considered in the decomposition are as follows: per capita household income is decomposed by multiplying the proportion of adults in the household by the income each adult receives,6 income per adult is disaggregated as the sum of earnings (per adult) and non-work income (per adult) in the household, lastly, earnings per adult are calculated as the product of remuneration per employed person and the employment rate (ratio between the number working and the number of adults) (see box 1.6). For this, it calculates each of the variables described at the aggregate level for each quintile at two different points in time, f0 and (,.