Evaluation of the 2005 Changes in the AHS Income Questionnaire
(September 2007, 21 pages)

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After redesigning the American Housing Survey (AHS) in 1997, the Census Bureau and the Department of Housing and Urban Development compared the income data collected in that survey with those found in the Current Population Survey (CPS).1 That study found that the AHS reported fewer households with non-wage income than the CPS and that AHS respondents tended to report self-employment income as wages. In addition, AHS data users requested that disability-related income sources be reported separately from other sources, to make it easier to count the number of households with disabled persons.