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Survey of Income and Program Participation Working Papers
Census Bureau research made available to others to encourage discussion on a range of topics, by release year.
Working Paper
The Survey of Income and Program Participation in the 1990's
The Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP) began in late 1983.
Working Paper
Time in Panel Effects in the SIPP
The U.S. Bureau of the Census and the University of Michigan entered into a Joint Statistical Agreement in the Fall of 1990.
Working Paper
Time in Panel Effects in the SIPP
Measurement and nonresponse error in panel surveys SIPP is considered by many to be a larger problem than in other types of survey data collection designs.
Working Paper
Dependent and Independent Data Collection in Panel Surveys
The 1985 and 1986 SIPP Panels present a rare opportunity to study the effects of data collection mode.
Working Paper
Estimates of the Uninsured Population from the SIPP
This paper examines the distributions of four characteristics of people without any type of health insurance at five points in time.
Working Paper
Analyzing Spells of Program Participation in the SIPP
Research conducted to investigate the effects of nonsampling errors in analyzing data related to participation in various government transfer programs.
Working Paper
Who Helps Whom in Older Parent-Child Families
This paper attempts to provide a better understanding of the contributions of parents & adult children who live together through analysis of data from the SIPP.
Working Paper
Pretest Results of an Alternative Measurement Design for the SIPP
This paper describes the development, design, and initial testing of experimental data collection procedures for the SIPP.
Working Paper
Private Health Insurance and the Utilization of Medical Care
Unobserved common factors are powerful explanation of the decision to have private health insurance and the use of medical care by elderly Medicare recipients.
Working Paper
A Statistical Profile of At-Risk Children in the United States
Explores whether SIPP provides reasonable estimates of the child population by comparing estimates derived from SIPP with estimates from the CPS.
Working Paper
Testing Alternative Household Roster Questions for the SIPP
The purpose of this project was to test whether an alternative procedure to roster the household would reduce undercoverage on the SIPP.
Working Paper
Changes in Parent-Child Coresidence in Later Life
The coresidence of older parents and their adult children is viewed both from the
perspective of the parent and the child using data from the SIPP.
Working Paper
Multiple Program Use in a Dynamic Context: Data from the SIPP
This report uses the SIPP to investigate overlaps both at a point in time and across time in a range of public assistance programs.
Working Paper
Measurements of Job Exits: What Difference Does Ambiguity Make?
This paper uses these detailed SIPP data for a sample of full-time salary workers to carry out analysis of the importance of ambiguity in job exit data.
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