S2E2: Income Patterns

Data Is Plural

This episode’s guest is Illenin Kondo, one of the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis economists behind the Income Distributions and Dynamics in America (IDDA) dataset and resource, featured in the October 11, 2023 edition of the Data Is Plural newsletter. (IDDA is a collaboration between the Census Bureau and the Minneapolis Fed.) Illenin explains how the researchers distilled two decades of confidential Census and IRS records into public statistics, what they mean by “income dynamics,” what makes the dataset special, and what they’ve learned from it so far.

Relevant and mentioned links:

• The project's landing page
• The project’s downloadable data
• The project’s data visualization tool
• An introduction to the statistics
• Articles with findings from the team’s research:
  • “The prosperity of high-earning foreign-born workers”
  • “The geographic divide in Native incomes and earnings”
  • “Inclusive recessions, inclusive recoveries?”
• Federal Statistical Research Data Centers

Theme music by Nikhil Sonnad.