[lbo-talk] Joe the Plumber, $250k+ business owner, as average American?

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Fri Oct 17 10:36:33 PDT 2008


On Oct 17, 2008, at 1:25 PM, Joseph Catron wrote:


> On a note related to this exchange, does anyone know of a good
> demographic tool, like American FactFinder, that includes liquid
> assets?

The only reliable source in the U.S. for this sort of thing is the Fed's Survey of Consumer Finances. It comes out at only three year intervals, and I don't know of any friendly interface for it.

The horse's mouth:

<http://www.federalreserve.gov/pubs/oss/oss2/scfindex.html>.

Summary wealth distribution stats:

<http://www.federalreserve.gov/pubs/oss/oss2/papers/concentration.2004.5.pdf

>.

Doug



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