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Social, Economic, and Housing Statistics Division Working Papers

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Social, Economic, and Housing Statistics Division Working Papers

Working Paper

Understanding Disasters Through Federal Data

September 22, 2025

This paper shows how federal data can guide state and local leaders in assessing and responding to Hurricane Helene’s impacts.
Working Paper

Effect of Vintage 2024 Population Controls on 2023 Income, Poverty, and Health Insurance in the United States Estimates

September 09, 2025

This paper shows the impact of Vintage 2024 population controls on key 2023 income, poverty, and health insurance estimates in the CPS ASEC.
Working Paper

Health Inclusive Poverty Measure in the United States: 2024

September 09, 2025

This working paper continues estimates of the Health Inclusive Poverty Measure (HIPM), presenting estimates alongside the SPM.
Working Paper

Developing a Child Care-Inclusive Poverty Measure

August 2025

This paper defines parameters for a basic need for child care, followed by a demonstration of poverty thresholds and rates using price data to construct need.
Working Paper

Reconsidering the Medical Expense Deduction in the Supplemental Poverty Measure

August 2025

This paper studies how capping the medical expense deduction in the Supplemental Poverty Measure impacts poverty rates.
Working Paper

Female Poverty and the Social Safety Net

August 2025

This paper breaks down the effect of social safety net programs on poverty rates for women and female-headed households in the U.S. between 2019 and 2023.
Working Paper

The Relationship Between the Population Experiencing Homelessness and Living in Shelters and Poverty

July 2025

This paper addresses how the sheltered and household populations differ by poverty status.
Working Paper

Predictors of Medicaid Reporting Instability in the 2023-2024 CPS ASEC

June 2025

This study examines individual-level instability in Medicaid reporting at the monthly level using matched records in the 2023-2024 CPS ASEC.
Working Paper

The Inclusion of the Incarcerated Population in Income and Poverty Estimates in the ACS

June 2025

This paper examines the effect of including data on the incarcerated population in income and poverty estimates.
Working Paper

Changes in Milestones of Adulthood

June 2025

This research examines changes in young adults’ experiences reaching five milestones of adulthood between 2005 and 2023.
Working Paper

Cross-Survey Modeling: Fusing Data from Multiple Data Sources to Enhance Multi-Dimensional Measures

May 2025

Cross-survey modeling helps the Census Bureau fuse data sources and predict missing variables—like Air Conditioning access—to enhance the CRE for Heat.
Working Paper

Accelerating Entropy Balancing Sample Weighting

May 2025

New optimization routines described and implemented to quickly weight large samples using Entropy Balance calibration.
Working Paper

The Effect of Survey Reference Periods on Income Reporting: Evidence from the 2022 American Community Survey Content Test Linked to Administrative Records

March 2025

The Effect of Survey Reference Periods on Income Reporting: Evidence from the 2022 American Community Survey Content Test Linked to Administrative Records.
Working Paper

Re-Evaluating Medicaid Reporting in the Current Population Survey Annual Social and Economic Supplement: Evidence from Linked Enrollment Records

March 2025

This paper examines record linkage between the 2017 CPS ASEC and Medicaid enrollment records.
Working Paper

Technical Documentation of Intermediate Tables for Improved Imputation

January 2025

This technical documentation describes a new data release that will aid users of the CPS ASEC tax variables.
Working Paper

National Experimental Well-Being Statistics Technical Note on Methodological Changes for Version 2

January 29, 2025

The NEWS project aims to produce the best possible estimates of income and poverty given all available survey and administrative data.

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