This paper presents the resulting income estimates based on changes to the Current Population Survey Annual Social and Economic Supplement (CPS ASEC) questionnaire on income estimates.  The ASEC is one of the most widely used socioeconomic surveys publishing national level estimates of income.  The ASEC is the official source of the US national poverty estimates.  The ASEC asks each person detailed questions categorizing income into over 50 sources.  As one of the nation’s longest running surveys, it has been over 30 years since the last major questionnaire redesign.  In an effort to take better advantage of an automated environment and to update questions on retirement income and health insurance, the Census Bureau conducted a limited telephone interview field test in March 2013 of a redesigned instrument using a retired ASEC sample of 23,000 households. The results of that test were encouraging, indicating likely increases in income recipiency and amounts.  In 2014, the Census Bureau conducted a second field test using a split panel and taking advantage of a full production environment.  This paper compares income estimates using the old and new questions from the split-panel test.

Note: Minor corrections to the research file used for the research papers account for the differences in the estimates included in this paper and the estimates published in September 2015 in Appendix D of Income and Poverty in the United States: 2014, P60-252.