LOGNORMAL EXTRAPOLATION AND INCOME ESTIMATION FOR POOR BLACK FAMILIES*
作者:
Norman R. Cloutier,
期刊:
Journal of Regional Science
(WILEY Available online 1995)
卷期:
Volume 35,
issue 1
页码: 165-171
ISSN:0022-4146
年代: 1995
DOI:10.1111/j.1467-9787.1995.tb01405.x
出版商: Blackwell Publishing Ltd
数据来源: WILEY
摘要:
ABSTRACT.In studies of urban and state income distribution, the estimation of percentile incomes within intervals reported by the Bureau of the Census has often been done under the assumption that incomes are uniformly distributed. This paper shows that income may be significantly underestimated if the assumption is applied to lower‐level percentiles in the black family income distribution. Consequently, conclusions about the level and determinants of the relative income of poor black families may be misleadin
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