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ensure accuracy. Using the American Community Survey: Benefits
and Challenges This adjustment expresses all of the reported
income amounts for a given period (1 year, 3 year, or 5 year) in
a comparable manner with regard to purchasing power as of the
most recent calendar year in the period. Such an adjustment
should not be confused with a current-year estimate. For
example, an inflation-adjusted 5-year period median income
estimate covering years 2005–2009 is not an estimate of median
income for the latest year (2009); instead, it is an estimate of
the median of all of the reported income amounts over the 5
years expressed in 2009 dollars. It is possible that for many
applications users may prefer an inflation adjustment to the
most recent calendar year to no adjustment at all. For some
applications, users may find that an inflat