variances and cell means for all topcoded income values in the public-use version of these data. We then provide a procedure … imputing its topcoded income values. As an example of its value we show how our new procedure improves on existing imputation …

This volume, from the 1956 Conference, deals with the nature, reliability, and the uses of the income data included in … the 1950 census. It contrasts this data with income information from other sources—field surveys, and administrative … findings based on income data. Of three papers of a more general nature, one surveys the frontiers of size distribution …

Atkinson, Piketty, and Saez (2011) survey an important new literature using income tax-based data to measure the share … of income held by top income groups. But changes in tax legislation that expand the tax base to include income sources (e … the share of income they hold. We provide a cautionary tale from Australia of how comprehensive tax reform legislation in …

Recent research on United States levels and trends in income inequality vary substantially in how they measure income …. Piketty and Saez (2003) examine market income of tax units based on IRS tax return data, DeNavas-Walt, Proctor, and Smith … (2012) and most CPS-based research uses pre-tax, post-transfer cash income of households, while the CBO (2012) uses both …

series that provides the mean of all income values above the topcode for any income source of any individual in the public … together with the public use March CPS, we closely match the yearly mean income levels and income inequalities of the U …

lessons for both inflation measurement and some fundamental research questions in macro and international economics. In … particular, we show how online prices can be used to construct daily price indexes in multiple countries and to avoid measurement …