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<p>Created a new article</p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>{{short description|Latin phrase; &quot;by heads&quot;/&quot;for each head&quot;}}<br /> &#039;&#039;&#039;&#039;&#039;Per capita&#039;&#039;&#039;&#039;&#039; is a Latin phrase literally meaning &quot;by heads&quot; or &quot;for each head&quot;, and idiomatically used to mean &quot;per person&quot;. The term is used in a wide variety of [[social sciences]] and statistical research contexts, including government statistics, [[economic indicator]]s, and [[built environment]] studies.<br /> <br /> It is commonly used in the [[discipline (academia)|field]] of [[statistics]] in place of saying &quot;per person&quot;&lt;ref&gt;{{cite web|url=http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/Per%20capita |title=Per capita &amp;#124; Define Per capita at Dictionary.com |publisher=Dictionary.reference.com |access-date=2017-04-08}}&lt;/ref&gt; (although &#039;&#039;per caput&#039;&#039; is the Latin for &quot;per head&quot;&lt;ref name=&quot;Economist&quot;&gt;{{cite news|url=http://www.economist.com/style-guide/per-caput-per-capita|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170909033338/http://www.economist.com/style-guide/per-caput-per-capita|archive-date=2017-09-09|title=Per caput, per capita|newspaper=[[The Economist]] style guide|access-date=2017-07-16|url-status=live}}&lt;/ref&gt;).<br /> <br /> It is also used in [[will (law)|will]]s to indicate that each of the named [[beneficiaries]] should receive, by devise or [[bequest]], equal shares of the estate.&lt;ref name=&quot;Economist&quot;/&gt; This is in contrast to a &#039;&#039;[[per stirpes]]&#039;&#039; division, in which each branch (Latin &#039;&#039;[[stirps]]&#039;&#039;, plural &#039;&#039;stirpes&#039;&#039;) of the [[inheriting]] family inherits an equal share of the [[estate (law)|estate]]. This is often used with the &#039;2-0 rule&#039;, a statistical principle that determines which group is larger per capita. Under the 2-0 rule, a group is the largest per capita if it has both the biggest total size and size of the group of the objects in question, therefore resulting in a 2-0 score.<br /> <br /> ==See also==<br /> * [[Per capita income]]<br /> <br /> ==References==<br /> {{Wiktionary}}<br /> {{Reflist}}<br /> <br /> [[Category:Latin words and phrases]]<br /> [[Category:Social statistics]]<br /> <br /> <br /> {{Statistics-stub}}</div>

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