Unfortunately, our data sets do not allow for consistent comparison of formal versus informal employment shares across time. However, evidence from other data sets (Leibbrandt, Woolard, McEwen 2009) shows clearly that there was an increase informal employment and in self employment over this period. Moving now to the overall measurement of income inequality, Table 2.6 shows that the Gini coefficient in South Africa rose from 0.66 in 1993 to 0.68 in 2000 and further to 0.70 in 2008* Inequality by racial group also increased monotonically across the time period, with the Gini coefficient being particularly high for Africans and Asian/Indians. There is also stark inequality difference by geotype, with inequality in urban and rural areas being measured at 0.56 and 0.67 respectively in 2008, although it appears that rural inequality decreased from 1993 to 2008. The high level of inequality is further confirmed by the ratios of the income accming to the 90lh percentile to that accruing to the 10th percentile. These disparity' indices stand at close to 30 for the three years under consideration (see Table A.3.8 of the annex III).