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For all persons, INCOTH reports the total income they received from other sources not already discussed in the interview. Using the reported income information, annual income amounts were then edited and imputed for every record on the full-year file. Please refer to the IPUMS user note on Income Data in MEPS for more information on the collection, editing (including top- and bottom-coding), and imputation of income variables in MEPS, as well as changes to the target population for income data collection over time. Users may also be interested in the data quality flag, QINCOTH, which reports the editing methods used for INCOTH.

The survey question about other income sources was asked a family-style question, where the family respondent is asked if anyone in the family received income from some other source. If respondents needed more information about what types of income to report as other source of income, they were shown an interview card that listed some of the different income sources that MEPS specifically collected information about in the interview as examples of income sources.