The Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP) currently uses cross-classifications of age, race, sex, and householder/nonhouseholder status as controls in longitudinal estimation. The controls come from the Current Population Survey (CPS), which has its own controls based on post-censal estimates of age, race, and sex. Previous research by Huggins and Fay [1988] ratio adjusted the SIPP sample that could be matched to IRS records but did not control the non-matched sample. They found a reduction in variances for most income and program participation variables.

Others in Series

Working Paper

An Analysis of Attrition in the PSID and SIPP

1993

This paper analyzes attrition behavior in two major longitudinal surveys; the Panel Study of Income Dynamics and the Survey of Income and Program Participation.

Working Paper

Mover Nonresponse Adjustment Research for the SIPP

1993

This paper focuses on new compensation approaches to our longitudinal weighting procedures designed to reduce nonresponse bias.

Working Paper

Testing a New Attrition Nonresponse Adjustment Method for SIPP

August 1994

Weight adjustments are designed to make the self-selected subsample of longitudinal respondents more representative of the initial wave one sample.

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Survey of Income and Program Participation Working Papers

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