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Activity Number:
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542
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Type:
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Contributed
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Date/Time:
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Thursday, August 2, 2007 : 10:30 AM to 12:20 PM
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Sponsor:
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Section on Government Statistics
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| Abstract - #309230 |
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Title:
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Comparison of the Income Items from the CPS and ACS
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Author(s):
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Bruce Webster, Jr.*+
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Companies:
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U.S. Census Bureau
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Address:
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9348 Cherry Hill Road, College Park, MD, 20740,
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Keywords:
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Income ; Response Errors ; Reference Periods ; ACS ; CPS ASEC
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Abstract:
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The Census Bureau conducts several surveys that collect income data. Each of these surveys gives slightly different results. This paper compares income responses given by the same respondent for the same time period on two separate surveys, the 2005 American Community Survey (ACS) and the 2006 Current Population Survey (CPS) Annual Social and Economic supplement (ASEC). To evaluate the sources of the differences in responses to the two surveys, the Census Bureau created a dataset that contains respondents who were in both surveys. This paper tries to isolate the reporting differences and provide possible reasons why those differences occurred.
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