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This paper examines the usefulness of the Spanish Household Budget Continuous Survey (base 1997), ECPF1997, on order to study the distribution of income. In particular compares the original quarterly files with a longitudinal file constructed by the Spanish Statistical Institute (INE). Given that the original files have a coyuntural goal, a high frequency to study the income distribution and the sample is a rotating panel the INE has constructed an annual file from the original quarterly files with the aim of providing a standard file of household¿s characteristics in which each record belongs to a different household and the reference period is the year. We examine how the construction of this file can affect the view we have about the income distribution.