1. United Nations and others) produced its final report on international, standards for income distributions last year. See Canberra Report (2001) or www.lisproject.org for a summary of all of the Canberra meetings and the final report 2. The United Kingdom data is the only exception to this rule as their Family Expenditure Survey (FES) uses a bi-weekly accounting period with rules for aggregating up to annual totals;Group" of National Statistical Offices and Organizations (including LIS, the World Bank, the
2. Topcoding is the procedure by which nation place a maximum value on reported incomes in the public release version of a survey;countries with rapidly growing high incomes, arbitrary topcodes can have serious effects on measured inequality,2000