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Abstract #301616

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Activity Number:	334
Type:	Topic Contributed
Date/Time:	Wednesday, August 11, 2004 : 10:30 AM to 12:20 PM
Sponsor:	Section on Survey Research Methods
Abstract - #301616
Title:	Assessing Industry Codes on the IRS Business Master File
Author(s):	Paul B. McMahon*+
Companies:	Internal Revenue Service
Address:	PO Box 2608, Washington, DC, 20013,
Keywords:	administrative records ; NAICS
Abstract:	The Internal Revenue Service uses a variation on the North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) Codes that generally collapses the six-digit classifications to reduce respondent burden. The data are self-reported and subject to data abstraction errors, but those that are among the list of codes IRS uses are retained on the Business Master File. We will compare these validated codes to the values assigned during the Statistics of Income Programs data abstraction process. In addition, some of the "invalid" codes may, in fact, be NAICS Codes from the full Census listing, and we investigate whether this is confirmed by the SOI data edits.

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