# Is there a flag for imputed wages before 1988? **URL:** \ **Category:** CPS\ **Created:** [February 22, 2017, 2:52pm UTC](https://forum.ipums.org/t/is-there-a-flag-for-imputed-wages-before-1988/1604 "2017-02-22T14:52:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 1
**Author:** ![uctpdtz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/ce73a5/32.png) [@uctpdtz](https://forum.ipums.org/u/uctpdtz)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2017, 2:52pm UTC](https://forum.ipums.org/t/is-there-a-flag-for-imputed-wages-before-1988/1604/1 "2017-02-22T14:52:00Z")
Related to my question yesterday, I wondered if there was any way (in the March CPS data provided by IPUMS) to identify those individuals who have had wage data imputed from 1962 onwards? This is related to the following question, the answer of which implies the data is available but not in IPUMS: [https://msdrdata.wordpress.com/2013/1…](https://msdrdata.wordpress.com/2013/10/04/data-mystery-income-allocation/) The following paper suggets it is possible to drop individuals who have not responded to the wage question and had their wage imputed instead from your sample (see first paragraph of page 30): [https://www.minneapolisfed.org/resear…](https://www.minneapolisfed.org/research/sr/sr239.pdf) The following paper implies that some flag is avaible for those with wage imputations in the March CPS from 1967 onwards (see footnote 4): [http://www2.econ.iastate.edu/classes/…](http://www2.econ.iastate.edu/classes/econ521/orazem/Papers/Katz_Murphy_1992.pdf) It would be great to identify these individuals, without having to use another data source! --- _[View the full topic](https://forum.ipums.org/t/is-there-a-flag-for-imputed-wages-before-1988/1604)._