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Social, Economic, and Housing Statistics Division Working Papers
Social, Economic, and Housing Statistics Division Working Papers
Working Paper
Owner-Occupied Shelter in Experimental Poverty Measures
In this paper we describe and present four approaches to include the “cost” of shelter in a poverty measure through the thresholds.
Working Paper
Enough for a Family to Live On? — Questions from the Public/Scientists
This paper discusses four approaches to determining or estimating a socially acceptable minimum standard of living.
Working Paper
Impact of Imputation Strategies for Medical Out-of-Pocket Expenditures
The impact of medical out-of-pocket expenses (MOOP) on alternative poverty rates is estimated in this paper.
Working Paper
Measuring and Modeling Taxes in the SIPP
The need to generate accurate tax estimates led to an examination of the current methods of generating tax information.
Working Paper
Social Security Benefit Reporting in the SIPP and in SSA Records
This paper examines the consistency between Social Security benefit amounts as reported in the SIPP and given in SSA administrative records.
Working Paper
Valuing Housing Subsidies in a New Measure of Poverty
This paper will describe a new method for valuing housing subsidies and compare it to several other methods.
Working Paper
Measuring the Impact of Child Care Expenses on Poverty
This paper compares the effect of using different methods of estimating child care expenses on poverty rates under the new, experimental poverty measure.
Working Paper
Do the Current Poverty Thresholds Include Any Amount for Health Care?
This paper addresses the question raised: Do the current poverty thresholds implicitly include any amounts for health care?
Working Paper
Imputation of Medical Out of Pocket (MOOP) Spending to CPS Records
This report presents an analysis of the previous modeling approach and a series of recommendations that should ‘improve’ the imputations of MOOP to the CPS.
Working Paper
Owner-Occupied Housing: An Input for Experimental Poverty Thresholds
This papers describes 2 approaches for estimating the costs of consumption flows of housing services which account for the occupancy of owner occupied housing.
Working Paper
Where We Live: Geographic Differences in Poverty Thresholds
This paper presents an examination of geographic adjustments to poverty thresholds.
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