Talk:Top-coded

Distribution of wealth
The example title and the sentence refer to the "distribution of wealth", while the table itself pertains to distribution of income. Those are two very different things, which have a surprisingly low correlation. I'm not sure whether that mistake was made in the source that was cited or the editor's interpretation of the source, so I can't determine how to correct it. LineChaser (talk) 19:59, 22 October 2011 (UTC)

Dr. Burkhauser's comment on this article
Dr. Burkhauser has reviewed this Wikipedia page, and provided us with the following comments to improve its quality:

"Top-coding is a general problem in public use data sets. Top-coding in the Current Population Survey make it very difficult to measure income inequality. To overcome this problem CPS now provides cell means (the mean value of all top-coded values). See:

Larrimore, Jeff, Richard V. Burkhauser, Shuaizhang Feng and Laura Zayatz. “Consistent Cell Means for Topcoded Incomes in the Public Use March CPS (1976-2007).” Journal of Economic and Social Measurement, 33 (2-3) (2008)"

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 * Reference : Stephen Jenkins & Richard Burkhauser & Shuaizhang Feng & Jeff Larrimore, 2009. "Measuring Inequality Using Censored Data: A Multiple Imputation Approach," Working Papers 09-05, Center for Economic Studies, U.S. Census Bureau.

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