This is the third edition of the Quality Profile for the Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP). This edition is an update of the previous editions (King et al., 1987; Jabine et al., 1990) and it provides a cumulative review of the data quality of SIPP panels. Users' comments on the earlier versions also are reflected in the current edition. We value user input and continue to welcome comments for improvements.

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WORKING PAPER | AUGUST 1996

Developing Extended Measures of Well-Being

An attempt to systematically measure or assess the state of the population with respect to its quality of life and progress.

WORKING PAPER | AUGUST 1996

Social Security Earnings of Wives Relative to their Husbands

An extension of a previous evaluation in which the effectiveness of the methods in estimating amounts for food stamps recipiency was evaluated.

WORKING PAPER | JANUARY 1999

The SIPP - Recent History and Future Developments

This paper reports on recent Census Bureau initiatives that have made the SIPP data easier to use.

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Survey of Income and Program Participation Working Papers