Consistent Cell Means for Topcoded Incomes in the Public Use March CPS (1976-2007) / Jeff Larrimore, Richard V. Burkhauser, Shuaizhang Feng, Laura Zayatz.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Larrimore, Jeff.

Contributor:

National Bureau of Economic Research.

Burkhauser, Richard V.

Feng, Shuaizhang.

Zayatz, Laura.

Series:

Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w13941.

NBER working paper series no. w13941

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);

Other Title:

Consistent Cell Means for Topcoded Incomes in the Public Use March CPS

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2008.

Summary:

Using the internal March CPS, we create and in this paper distribute to the larger research community a cell mean series that provides the mean of all income values above the topcode for any income source of any individual in the public use March CPS that has been topcoded since 1976. We also describeour construction of this series. When we use this series together with the public use March CPS, we closely match the yearly mean income levels and income inequalities of the U.S. population found using the internal March CPS data.

Notes:

Print version record

April 2008.