Burkhauser, Richard V.; Hérault, Nicolas; Jenkins, Stephen - 2017
Survey under-coverage of top incomes leads to bias in survey-based estimates of overall income inequality. Using income …'s pioneering "SPI adjustment" method that implements this idea. Since 1992, the principal income distribution series (reported … annually in Households Below Average Income) has been based on household survey data in which the incomes of a small number of …