Income Limits for Each Fifth and Top 5 Percent of All Households: 1967 to 2016

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Files	Size	Format	Created	Updated	License	Source
1	3.14 kB	csv		about 6 years ago		United States Census Bureau

Households as of March of the following year. Income in current and 2016 CPI-U-RS adjusted dollars.

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File	Description	Size	Last modified	Download
household-income-us-historical	2016 dollars	3.14 kB	about 6 years ago	household-income-us-historical

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Schema

name	type	description
Year	year
Number (thousands)	number
Lowest	number	Upper limit of each fifth (dollars)
Second	number	Upper limit of each fifth (dollars)
Third	number	Upper limit of each fifth (dollars)
Fourth	number	Upper limit of each fifth (dollars)
Top 5 percent	number	Lower limit of top 5 percent (dollars)

Upper limits of annual incomes for each fifth and lower limit of income for top 5 percent of all housholds from 1967 to last year

Data

This dataset is acquired from U.S. Census Bureau, Current Population Survey, Annual Social and Economic Supplements. https://www2.census.gov/

Preparation

You will need Python 3.6 or greater and dataflows library to run the script

To update the data run the process script locally:

# Install dataflows
pip install dataflows

# Run the script
python houshold_us_flow.py

License

For information on confidentiality protection, sampling error, nonsampling error, and definitions, see //www2.census.gov/programs-surveys/cps/techdocs/cpsmar17.pdf

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