Improving imputations of top incomes in the public-use current population survey by using both cell-means and variances

Richard Burkhauser, Shuaizhang Feng and Jeff Larrimore

Economics Letters, 2010, vol. 108, issue 1, 69-72

Abstract: Using internal March CPS data, we construct and make available variances and cell-means for all topcoded income values in the public-use CPS. We then demonstrate how their inclusion can improve existing imputation methods in the labor earnings inequality literature.

Keywords: CPS; Topcoding; Cell-means; Variances (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
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