Tag: current population survey
A 2017 paper by Adam Bee and Joshua Mitchell re-documented that the Census Bureau’s Current Population Survey (CPS) understates retirement income, renewing concern around the accuracy of income measurements in the CPS. Some have wondered if this problem applies to retirement income estimates in other survey datasets as well – calling into question decades of…
This dependency needs to be part of any discussion about the program’s future. For decades, the Social Security Administration has put out reports showing the percentage of household income attributable to Social Security. In recent years, some analysts have criticized the reliance of these estimates on data from the Current Population Survey (CPS). Studies hav…
