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Imputation and money income distribution measures

Article type: Research Article

Authors: Turek, Joan L.

Affiliations: Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, Department of Health and Human Services, 200 Independence Avenue S.W., Washington, DC 20201, USA. E-mail: JLTurek@aol.com

Keywords: Income inequality, income distribution, imputation, GINI index, income quintiles, total money income

DOI: 10.3233/SJI-160334

Journal: Statistical Journal of the IAOS, vol. 33, no. 2, pp. 495-501, 2017

Published: 12 May 2017
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Abstract

This paper examines the growing inequality in American money income at the person level. It tests whether the growing trend in the imputation of money income data on the Annual Social and Economic Supplement (ASEC) to the Current Population Survey (CPS) conducted by the U.S. Bureau of the Census may be a contributing factor. The growing disparity in the distribution of money income over time does not appear to be an artifact of the imputation methods employed in developing aggregate money income estimates.

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