Valley on the Move
January 28, 2001
WHAT THE IRS MIGRATION DATA MEAN
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The numbers behind the maps and stories in "Valley on the Move"

 

come from a Sunday Gazette-Mail computer analysis of Internal Revenue

 

Service data.

 

 

In addition to collecting taxes from citizens, the IRS keeps

 

track of the county and state where taxpayers and their dependents say

 

they live, and where they move. The IRS does not release

 

data on any individual taxpayer, only the total numbers of people

 

who moved.

 

 

This IRSmigrationdata also tracks the average

 

income of the taxpayers who leave or come into a county, called the median

 

adjusted gross income, and the sum earning power of all those people,

 

called the aggregate adjusted gross income.

 

 

The IRSdata does not count all people. Not everybody

 

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