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Income of Respondent's Family 1948-2004
  '48 '52 '54 '56 '58 '60 '62 '64 '66 '68 '70 '72 '74 '76 '78 '80 '82 '84 '86 '88 '90 '92 '94 '96 '98 '00 '02 '04
0-16 Percentile : 10 20 21 16 16 15 22 19 20 16 15 19 16 14 17 17 17 15 17 19 18 15 17 16 15 14 ** 16
17-33 Percentile : 17 16 13 22 21 18 8 18 9 21 15 12 16 19 18 16 17 18 15 13 16 18 15 17 18 25 ** 18
34-67 Percentile : 28 23 31 31 28 28 42 26 33 31 32 37 40 31 31 36 30 35 36 35 31 30 35 37 34 30 ** 30
68-95 Percentile : 32 37 28 23 31 34 23 29 32 27 34 27 25 30 27 25 28 26 27 30 31 31 30 25 26 26 ** 23
96-100 Percentile: 13 4 7 8 3 5 5 7 6 5 4 5 4 5 7 5 8 6 4 3 4 5 4 5 8 5 ** 11
N   655 1747 1096 1699 1743 1931 1229 1509 1246 1507 1450 2612 2363 2651 2000 1424 1253 1990 1985 1862 1792 2283 1649 1559 1215 1493   1055

PERCENTAGE WITHIN STUDY YEAR
Table 1A.9
Source: The American National Election Studies
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NOTE: Income percentile categories were constructed from NES survey data for family income. For each study year, the survey variable's original codes describing income ranges, was approximated as closely as possible to fit within this percentage group version. Note that prior to 1972, an estimate of the current year's income was given by the respondent; in all later years, the respondent's estimate of income was for previous year.

This question is variable VCF0114 in the ANES Cumulative Data File dataset.
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Weight variable VCF0009A was used to produce this table (see weight documentation)

(Table generated: 27NOV05)


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