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What conclusion should I draw from these seemingly inconsistent statistics?
by cle 6y ago
What conclusion should I draw from these seemingly inconsistent statistics?
- jeffbee 6y agoI don't know! The article that supposedly upholds the theory of slow household growth is discussing a forecast of the 2020 decennial census and says nothing about 2019. The income data we are discussing is for 2019 only. These two things do not really stand in opposition to each other.
- sumedh 6y agoThese statistics depend on how the questions was framed to get the data.
- chaorace 6y agoI would say it is wiser to draw a conclusion using the census household size data, since the headline statistic of household income is also sourced from the census. Why compare apples and oranges when you have apples and apples?
- SubiculumCode 6y agoWell the inferences would only be as good as the sampling then. I know for me, the census was the last thing that was on my mind, and it was only completed it because my spouse was did it. There has been many issues with Census data collection (take a google news search).
- jeffbee 6y agoThis data is from the Current Population Survey where they select households and then either visit or call on the phone. It's not a thing where they just mail out the survey. The CPS also repeatedly selects the same household in consecutive surveys, which gives them continuity that other surveys lack.
- throwaway6000 6y agowuhooo Trump for president!
- paul7986 6y agono politics here especially anything positive for that looney tune who per the census has increased wages for citizens by 4k in a year.