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Working Paper No. 912 | August 2018

The Sources and Methods Used in the Creation of the Levy Institute Measure of Economic Well-Being for the United States, 1959–2013

This paper documents the sources of data used in the construction of the estimates of the Levy Institute Measure of Economic Wellbeing (LIMEW) for the years 1959, 1972, 1982, 1989, 1992, 1995, 2000, 2001, 2004, 2007, 2010, and 2013. It also documents the methods used to combine the various sources of data into the synthetic dataset used to produce each year’s LIMEW estimates.
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Working Paper No. 912
Associated Program:
The Levy Institute Measure of Economic Well-Being
Author(s):
Ajit Zacharias Thomas Masterson Fernando Rios-Avila
Related Topic(s):
Levy Institute Measure of Economic Well-being (LIMEW) Statistical matching

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