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Activity Number:
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52
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Type:
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Topic Contributed
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Date/Time:
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Sunday, August 3, 2008 : 4:00 PM to 5:50 PM
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Sponsor:
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Section on Government Statistics
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| Abstract - #300867 |
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Title:
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Old Tabulations, Old Files, and a Brief History of Individual Tax Return Sampling
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Author(s):
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Michael E. Weber*+ and David P. Paris and Peter J. Sailer
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Companies:
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Statistics of Income, IRS and Statistics of Income, IRS and Consultant
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Address:
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P.O. Box 2608, Washington, DC, 20013-2608,
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Keywords:
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Individual Income Tax Returns ; Historical Tabulations ; Historical Microdata
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Abstract:
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The Statistics of Income Division of the Internal Revenue Service has published data derived from Individual Income Tax Returns filed by taxpayers since 1916. As with most projects of any kind, the focus of the effort is on getting the current work completed. Documentation is often an activity that gets secondary attention. And documentation written with history in mind, where the documentation serves not only to remind the members of the team of what they did, but also serves to explain to future teams what was done and why, gets even less attention. This paper is the beginning of an attempt at creating historical documentation for the data created by SOI based on Individual Income Tax Returns.
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