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Working Paper

SIPP: An Overview and Discussion of Research Issues

December 1988

This paper provides basic background information on the survey design and content.

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Working Paper

Training, Wage Growth, Firm Size

November 1988

A growing body of economic literature indicates that the labor market operates to match workers with particular skills.

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Working Paper

Testing Telephone Interviewing in the SIPP and Some Early Results

November 1988

The (SIPP), is a nationwide household survey which is designed to provide comprehensive information on the economic situation of households.

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Working Paper

Census Bureau Microdata

November 1988

The Census Bureau has provided public use microdata as a component of its decennial census data products since 1963.

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Working Paper

Using Administrative Record Data to Describe SIPP Response Errors

November 1988

This paper addresses issues concerning the use of records to evaluate the quality of survey estimates and describes a specific application to the (SIPP).

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Working Paper

Excluding Sample that Misses Some Interviews from SIPP

November 1988

A person in a SIPP panel is generally interviewed eight times over a period of 2 2/3 years, with each interview collecting information for a 4 month period.

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Working Paper

Defining and Measuring Nonmetro Poverty

November 1988

Since the 1960's, a dramatic change has occurred in how people receive their income.

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Working Paper

The Employment of Mothers and Prevention of Poverty

November 1988

Our goal in this paper is to examine empirically the role that the employment of mothers plays (and might play) in keeping (or getting) families above poverty.

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Working Paper

Nonresponse Adjustment Methods for Demographic Surveys at the Census

November 1988

In this paper we will primarily discuss nonresponse weighting adjustment for demographic surveys used at the Bureau of the Census.

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Working Paper

Income Survey Development Program and SIPP: Selected References

September 1988

This paper consists of a list of selected references concerning the SIPP and its predecessor, the Income Survey Development Program (ISDP).

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Working Paper

Reservation Wages and Acceptance Wages of Unemployed Persons

August 1988

This paper reports on an error found in the tabulations of the earlier paper and then proceeds to explore the "quality issue" from a new angle.

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Working Paper

Income and Assets of Social Security Beneficiaries by Type of Benefit

August 1988

A look at the economic status of five beneficiary groups, including average income & poverty rates, the composition of income & level of asset holdings.

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Working Paper

The SIPP: Data from the SSA's 1987 Annual Statistical Supplement

August 1988

This paper discusses the SIPP as a new data source which will provide more reliable and comprehensive information on the economic resources of Americans.

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Working Paper

Measuring Poverty and Crises

July 1988

In this paper we demonstrate that the official poverty measure is conceptually deficient.

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Working Paper

Using Administrative Record Data

July 1988

This paper addresses issues concerning the use of records to evaluate the quality of survey estimates.

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Working Paper

A Comparison of Gross Changes in Labor Force Status from SIPP and CPS

July 1988

As a beginning, this paper presents a comparison of the gross labor force flows as recorded in the SIPP and CPS during 1984.

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Working Paper

Residential Mobility of One-Person Households

July 1988

This paper describes recent developments in the population of one-person households in the Federal Republic of Germand and the United States.

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Working Paper

New Data from the 1984 Survey of Income and Program Participation

July 1988

This paper serves the dual purpose of reporting on the housing characteristics of elderly households of various age groups.

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Working Paper

A Comparison of Gross Changes in Labor Force Status From SIPP and CPS

July 1988

This paper presents a comparison of the gross labor force flows as recorded in the SIPP and CPS during 1984.

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Working Paper

Year-Apart Estimates of Household Net Worth from the SIPP

July 1988

The difficulty of collecting accurate data on wealth in a household survey has long been recognized.

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Working Paper

A Methodological Study Using Administrative Records

July 1988

The Income Survey Development Program was conducted by the Department of Health and Human Services and the Bureau of the Census.

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Working Paper

Income as a Proxy for the Economic Status of the Elderly

July 1988

This paper explores the importance of having asset data to evaluate the economic situation of the elderly.

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Working Paper

The Dynamics of Medicaid Enrollment

July 1988

In this paper, considering just the noninstitutionalized population served by Medicaid, we examine another aspect of the program's heterogeneity.

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Working Paper

The Effect of Income Taxation on Labor Supply

July 1988

This paper extends the standard static model of labor supply and taxation to the case where people are able to legally avoid taxes.

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Working Paper

Examining the Dynamics of Health Insurance Loss

July 1988

We consider health insurance coverage in context by examining transitions in health insurance status among cohorts of privately insured & uninsured persons.

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Working Paper

Welfare Recipient as Observed in the SIPP

June 1988

This paper examines welfare recipiency as reported in the 1984 Panel of the Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP).

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Working Paper

The Wealth of the Aged and Nonaged, 1984

June 1988

This paper discusses and illustrates the use of wealth data for the analysis of the economic status of households.

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Working Paper

Fluctuations in Income and Characteristics of the Low Income Pop

June 1988

This paper uses data from the SIPP to examine short spells of low income, and considers the characteristics of those who tend to exit from poverty rapidly.

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Working Paper

Participation in Industrial Training Programs

June 1988

This paper explores the relationship between firm size and worker participation in training programs both at work and outside of work.

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Working Paper

Measuring Poverty with the SIPP and the CPS

June 1988

This paper uses SIPP data to obtain poverty rate estimates for 1984, and compares those estimates with the official poverty statistics derived from the CPS.

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Working Paper

The Discourage Worker Effect: A Reappraisal Using Spell Duration Data

June 1988

The purpose of this paper is to formulate and estimate a microdynamic reduced form model for the transition between unemployment and non-participation.

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Working Paper

Unit of Analysis on Measures of Serial Multiple Program Participation

May 1988

The paper outlines the difficulties associated with the choice of the unit of analysis in longitudinal studies and discusses the data used in the analysis.

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Working Paper

A Look at Welfare Dependency Using the 1984 SIPP Panel File

April 1988

Beginning in the Fall of 1983, The Bureau of the Census launched a new data collection activity known as the Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP).

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Working Paper

Factors Associated with Household Net Worth

February 1988

The purpose of this paper is to further analyze the factors correlated with wealth holdings by using a multivariate regression model.

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Working Paper

The Statistically Invisible Minority Aged

January 1988

This paper will use the SIPP to show some illustrative differentials within the older population for the various age, sex, and race groups.

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