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Constant dollars income

Part A - Plain language definition:

Income data for one or more previous years, calculated to reflect the increase or decrease in the cost of living over the intervening period.

Part B - Detailed definition:

Refers to the presentation of income statistics from two or more censuses in terms of the value of the dollar in one of those censuses.

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