AN EXAMPLE OF THE USE OF STATISTICAL MATCHING IN THE ESTIMATION AND ANALYSIS OF THE SIZE DISTRIBUTION OF INCOME*

Daniel B. Radner

Review of Income and Wealth, 1981, vol. 27, issue 3, 211-242

Abstract: This paper focuses on the use of statistical matching in the estimation and analysis of the size distribution of family unit personal income. The paper begins with a brief discussion of data on the size distribution of income in the U.S. and their limitations. Several methods of improving or augmenting those data are described, and earlier examples of statistical matching for that purpose are mentioned. A brief summary of the types of statistical matching methods which have been used is also presented. Then a recent example of statistical matching carried out at the Office of Research and Statistics, Social Security Administration, is described, and the effects on the size distribution of adjusting and augmenting the initial data using the statistically matched data from that example are shown. Material relating to the accuracy of that statistical match is presented in the appendix.

Date: 1981
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