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Activity Number:
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286
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Type:
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Topic Contributed
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Date/Time:
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Tuesday, July 31, 2012 : 8:30 AM to 10:20 AM
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Sponsor:
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Section on Government Statistics
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Abstract - #306372 |
Title:
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An Evaluation of Retirement Income in the CPS Using Form 1099-R Microdata
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Author(s):
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Charles Bee*+
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Companies:
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U.S. Census Bureau
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Address:
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3453 1/2 17th Street NW, Washington, DC, 20010, United States
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Keywords:
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retirement ;
income ;
CPS ;
ASEC ;
1099-R
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Abstract:
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In the past several decades, individuals 65 and over have experienced remarkable declines in poverty, from 35.2 percent in 1959 to 9.7 percent in 2008 (Meyer and Sullivan, 2010). These declines in official poverty statistics, however, are based largely on self-reported income data from the Current Population Survey Annual Social and Economic Supplement (CPS-ASEC). In this paper we evaluate the quality of the retirement income data in the CPS-ASEC by matching it to individual microdata from 1099-R forms filed with tax returns in the tax year 2008. Since income data in the CPS-ASEC is used in the calculation of several official economic statistics, we are able to test whether using 1099-R records instead would alter measurements ranging from poverty rates among the elderly to income inequality.
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