This volume, from the 1956 Conference, deals with the nature, reliability, and the uses of the income data included in the 1950 census. It contrasts this data with income information from other sources-field surveys, and administrative records of government regulatory, fiscal, and social security agencies. Another group of papers deals with substantive findings based on income data. Of three papers of a more general nature, one surveys the frontiers of size distribution research, another builds a bridge between the census data and other income data, and a third provides an historical review of income questions in census surveys.

Originally published in 1958.

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Edited by Gerald Garvey

• Frontmatter,
• Contents,
• Introduction,
• Some Frontiers of Size-Distribution Research,
• Decennial Census and Current Population Survey Data on Income,
• The Relation of Census Income Distribution Statistics to Other Income Data,
• The Survey of Consumer Finances and the Census Quality Check,
• Coordination of Old-Age and Survivors Insurance Wage Records and the Post-Enumeration Survey,
• Income Reported in the 1950 Census and on Income Tax Returns,
• The 1950 Census and the Post-Enumeration Survey,
• Some Income Adjustment Results from the 1949 Audit Control Program,
• An Appraisal of the Data for Farm Families,
• D. GALE JOHNSON,
• A Method of Identifying Chronic Low-Income Groups from Cross-Section Survey Data,
• Changes in the Industrial Distribution of Wages in the United States, 1939-1949,
• The Effect of Multi-Industry Employment on the Industrial Distribution of Wages,
• Index of Authors,
• Index of Subjects,