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Trends in the Relative Household Income of Working-Age Men With Work Limitations

Correcting the Record Using Internal Current Population Survey Data

Cornell University, rvb1{at}cornell.edu

Jeff Larrimore

Cornell University

Policy makers relying on public-use Current Population Survey (CPS) data to measure the success of government policies in overcoming the gap in economic well-being between working-age men with and without disabilities will understate the mean income of both and overstate the relative economic well-being of the former. This understatement results from topcoding in the public-use CPS, which suppresses top incomes in the data set. Using cell means with the public-use CPS, the authors better correct for these topcoding problems than alternate methods and provide a relative economic well-being series (1980—2006) based on the mean incomes of working-age men with and without disabilities.

Key Words: income • earnings • inequality • work limitations • topcoding

This version was published on December 1, 2009

Journal of Disability Policy Studies, Vol. 20, No. 3, 162-169 (2009)
DOI: 10.1177/1044207309333430


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