Typically, the modeller seeks to divide the population into quantiles, and rank the quantiles by lift.

Not only did he unwittingly divide the population, but his insistence that educational grants be divided three ways provided an important precedent for a general division of all state patronage.

Calculations are made by dividing the population by the land area.

The state was divided into uyezds, which mostly consisted of cities and their immediate surrounding areas; this system divided the population unevenly and was extremely clumsy to manage.