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August 2009

The impact of income imputation in the Consumer Expenditure Survey

Bill Passero

With the release of 2004 data from the Consumer Expenditure Survey, the Bureau of Labor Statistics began implementing imputation for missing responses to questions about income; imputation has brought CE estimates closer to CPS estimates, but significant disparities remain between the estimates for many of the smaller components.

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