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Constant focus: Engaging to measure wealth

Article type: Research Article

Authors: Kennickell, Arthur B.

Affiliations: Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (Ret.), Washington, DC 20551, USA. E-mail: Arthur.Kennickell@gmail.com

Keywords: Wealth measurement, wealth distribution, survey methodology

DOI: 10.3233/SJI-170347

Journal: Statistical Journal of the IAOS, vol. 33, no. 1, pp. 13-22, 2017

Published: 2 March 2017
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Abstract

This essay is intended to place the selection of my papers in this issue of the SJIAOS in the context of other research on wealth measurement and to provide an overview of their part in the history of the constant focus in the Survey of Consumer Finances to engage in measuring wealth more effectively. It also makes some recommendations for future work on that survey and possibly other systems of measurement.

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