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Abstract #303655

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Activity Number: 26
Type: Contributed
Date/Time: Sunday, August 7, 2005 : 2:00 PM to 3:50 PM
Sponsor: Section on Survey Research Methods
Abstract - #303655
Title: Origins of the Estate and Personal Wealth Sample Design
Author(s): Paul McMahon*+
Companies: U.S. Internal Revenue Service
Address: PO Box 2608, Washington, DC, 20013, United States
Keywords: Sample Design ; Administrative Records ; Personal Wealth
Abstract:

The Statistics of Income Division samples Estate Tax Returns to assist in estimating changes in tax revenues under proposed law revisions and develop estimates of personal wealth. These two goals, first linked to the sample in the early 1980s, resulted in a design that must address concerns such as minimizing the variance on estimates of taxes due while permitting the use of mortality rates to estimate asset holdings of various types. The goals are not complementary, as the revenue portion requires information on filings by fiscal periods while the wealth part implies the need to focus on deaths during particular years.

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