Tag: PSID

Piggy bank with measuring tape

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…

Senior couple and tecnologies

The brief’s key findings are: Recent research has re-documented that the Census Bureau’s Current Population Survey (CPS) understates retirement income. Some have wondered if this problem also applies to other surveys and calls into question decades of research that suggest many are ill-prepared for retirement. To answer this question, the analysis compared estimates from fiv…