Dear Colleague,

The March 2018 issue of the SJIAOS is now available. It is a special issue devoted to the Statistics of Income Division (SOI) of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) in the United States.

Barry Johnson, the current director of SOI has compiled a series of manuscripts authored by his staff to provide examples representative of the work within the agency.

We start with the history of SOI. The history is told by Fritz Scheuren, editor-in-chief emeritus of our Journal and director of SOI from 1980 to 1994.

In addition to the SOI manuscripts, you will find Katherine Condon’s interview with Nancy McBeth, a consultant with the Statistical Center for the Cooperation Council for the Arab Countries of the Gulf (GCC-Stat) in Muscat, Oman, since late 2014. Nancy is currently serving on the IAOS Executive Committee as a special assistant to the IAOS president.

You will also find a conversation with our interview editor, Nancy Torrieri. She talks to a US Census Bureau geographer, Michael Ratcliffe, about Census geography, its importance and relevance for users of official statistics.

The views and opinions expressed in the interviews and conversations published in SJIAOS are those of the interviewee and do not necessarily reflect the policy or position of the Journal, the IAOS nor IOS Press.

Featured Articles

Editorial

Interview with Nancy Elizabeth McBeth
Condon, Katherine M.

Conversation with Michael R. Ratcliffe
Torrieri, Nancy K.

SOI at 100: Traditionally enumerative, now more and more analytic
Scheuren, Fritz

Using administrative records to improve official statistics produced by the Statistics of Income Division, IRS
Johnson, Barry W. | Ludlum, Melissa | Rib, Tamara

Applying weight calibration on panel data to produce cross-sectional estimates
Liu, Yan K. | Strudler, Michael | Wilson, Janette | Lim, Young

Estimating persistence in Employee Business Expense correspondence examinations using Hidden Markov and Semi-Markov models
Buckel, Julie | Parker, Anne | Oehlert, Christine | Shipley, Sarah

Comparing design-based methods to improve zip code-level estimates from tax administration data
Henry, Kimberly | Haines, Tracy | Bryant, Victoria

How much longevity can money buy? Estimating mortality rates for wealthy individuals
Johnson, Barry W. | Raub, Brian

The SOI Databank: A case study in leveraging administrative data in support of evidence-based policymaking
Chetty, Raj | Friedman, John N. | Saez, Emmanuel | Yagan, Danny

Crooked roads: SOI at 100
Kennickell, Arthur B.

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