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This paper computes the expected present value of Social Security retirement benefits and taxes for households of different marital circumstances, incomes, and age cohorts. Also computed are the net gain or loss from participation in the system and the expected internal rate of return it offers...
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We measure and examine data error in health, education and income statistics used to construct the Human Development Index. We identify three sources of data error which are due to (i) data updating, (ii) formula revisions and (iii) thresholds to classify a country's development status. We...
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Survey under-coverage of top incomes leads to bias in survey-based estimates of overall income inequality. Using income tax record data in combination with survey data is a potential approach to address the problem; we consider here the UK's pioneering 'SPI adjustment' method that implements...
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The recent digitization of complete count census data is an extraordinary opportunity for social scientists to create … large longitudinal datasets by linking individuals from one census to another or from other sources to the census. We …
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How high is unemployment? How low is labor force participation? Is obesity more prevalent among men? How large are household expenditures? We study the sources of the relevant official statistics--the Current Population Survey (CPS), the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS), and...
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.S. decennial census data from the late-19th and early-20th centuries. Comparing children coded as "Black" or "Mulatto" by census …
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analyses. We address this by introducing a new dataset linking patent inventors to survey, census, and administrative microdata … at the U.S. Census Bureau. We use this data to provide a first look at the demographic characteristics, employer …
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The authors explore unique complete-count data from the 1930 Census in which a respondent's race was assigned by … enumerators and "Mexican" was one of the possible responses. Census enumerators frequently and selectively assigned a non …'s socioeconomic attainment. The propensity for Census enumerators to identify Mexican Americans as white varied enormously across U …
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confidential 2010 Census person records. Using the 38-bin age variable tabulated at the census block level, at most 20.1% of … statistical baselines. The flaw in the 2010 Census framework was the assumption that aggregation prevented accurate microdata … reconstruction, justifying weaker disclosure limitation methods than were applied to 2010 Census public microdata. The framework used …
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This paper investigates the problem of responseand coding errors in the Current Population Survey. It draws upon a potentially rich source o finformation for verifying survey answers, a three month matched sample of CPS respondents, to analyze whether individuals' questionnaire responses...
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