The Mobility, Opportunity, and Volatility Statistics project (MOVS) fills a gap in comprehensive income statistics. Using linked demographic and tax records on the population of U.S. working-age adults, MOVS defines households and calculates household income, applying an equivalence scale to create a personal income concept, and then traces the progress of individuals' incomes over time. We then output a set of intermediate statistics by race-ethnicity group, sex, year, and base-year state of residence and income decile. We provide these statistics in both an interactive data tool and in downloadable files accompanied by input code in Stata, SAS, and R.

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