Creating an Integrated System of Data and Statistics on Household Income, Consumption, and Wealth: Time to Build

by Engineering National Academies of Sciences

Many federal agencies provide data and statistics on inequality and related aspects of household income, consumption, and wealth (ICW). However, because the information provided by these agencies is often produced using different concepts, underlying data, and methods, the resulting estimates of poverty, inequality, mean and median household income, consumption, and wealth, as well as other statistics, do not always tell a consistent or easily...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0309712319
• ISBN13: 9780309712316
• Release Date: December 2024
• Publisher: National Academies Press
• Length: 350 Pages