1. Item Description Change:The item PEINUSYR (location 731 on the person's record) has a revised description of value = 15. This value stands for 1996-1997. An additional value, PEINUSYR = 16 appears. This value stands for 1998-2000.
2. Revised Topcodes:As was the case in previous years, all earnings and income items were subject to topcoding again this year. The same topcodes used in 1999 were used again (see chart #1 below). We also replaced all topcoded values with the average amount across all topcoded records. Chart #2 below provides these average amounts for the 12 socioeconomic cells within which we computed these averages. Cells with a ---- did not have any topcoded records. Cells with an * were collapsed together. Chart #3 contains the topcodes and average amounts for the noncash items.

Chart #1

Topcode Amounts for Earnings Fields

Field           Topcode

ERN-VAL         $150,000

WS-VAL            25,000

SE-VAL            40,000

FRM-VAL           25,000


Chart #2

Average (Replacement) Values for Earnings Fields

Cell          ERN-VAL         WS-VAL        SE-VAL            FRM-VAL

M,NBH,FTYR    $229,340        $50,038       $119,585          $87,165

M,NBH,OTH      205,817         49,809        107,128           51,355*

M,B,FTYR       257,525         35,624        ----              ----

M,B,OTH        244,805*        31,178*        64,058*          ----

M,H,FTYR       362,302         39,676         64,058*          51,355*

M,H,OTH        244,805*        31,178*        64,058*          ----

F,NBH,FTYR     197,387         51,468         63,257           54,784

F,NBH,OTH      284,133         65,960         64,543           62,400

F,B,FTYR       244,805*        67,780         ----             ----

F,B,OTH        244,805*        31,178*        ----             ----

F,H,FTYR       333,565         50,769         ----             ----

F,H,OTH        ----           236,225         64,058*          51,355*


1/  Cell Definition:  (Key)

Column 1:    Sex:
             M=Male
             F= Female

Column 2:    Race/Origin:
             NBH=Not Black, Not Hispanic
             B=Black
             H=Hispanic

Column 3:    Work Experience:
             FTYR=Full Year (50+ weeks), Full Time (35+ hours per week)
             OTR=Not Full Year, Full Time


Chart #3


Income Source      Topcode                Average

SUR-VAL1           $50,000                $83,427

SUR-VAL2            50,000                 83,427

DIS-VAL1            35,000                 73,484

DIS-VAL2            35,000                 73,484

RET-VAL1            45,000                 63,210

RET-VAL2            45,000                 62,139

INT-VAL             35,000                 63,005

DIV-VAL             15,000                 36,962

RNT-VAL             25,000                 55,220

ED-VAL              20,000                 25,585

CSP-VAL             15,000                 23,918

ALM-VAL             40,000                 54,009

FIN-VAL             30,000                 54,560

OI-VAL              25,000                 50,217

The data after topcoding were used to create all combined income recodes on the file.

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