TY  - JOUR
AU  - Larrimore,Jeff
AU  - Burkhauser,Richard V.
AU  - Feng,Shuaizhang
AU  - Zayatz,Laura
TI  - Consistent Cell Means for Topcoded Incomes in the Public Use March CPS (1976-2007)
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 13941
PY  - 2008
Y2  - April 2008
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w13941
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w13941.pdf
N1  - Author contact info:
Jeff Larrimore
Joint Committee on Taxation
1625 Longworth House Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20515
E-Mail: jeff.larrimore@mail.house.gov

Richard V. Burkhauser
Cornell University
Department of Policy Analysis & Management
259 MVR Hall
Ithaca, NY 14853-4401
Tel: 607/255-2097
Fax: 607/255-4071
E-Mail: rvb1@cornell.edu

Shuaizhang Feng
Department of Economics
Shanghai University of Finance and Economics
Shanghai China
E-Mail: shuaizhang.feng@gmail.com

Laura Zayatz
U.S. Census Bureau
E-Mail: Laura.zayatz@census.gov
AB  - 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.
ER  -