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Working Paper

Work Related Expenditures in a New Measure of Poverty

August 07, 1996

This paper examines various methods of accounting for work related expenses (including child care expenses) in a new measure of poverty.

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Working Paper

Work Related Expenditures in a New Measure of Poverty

August 07, 1996

This paper examines various methods of accounting for work related expenses (including child care expenses) in a new measure of poverty.

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Working Paper

Alternative Samples for Welfare Duration in SIPP

August 04, 1996

This paper reports the general results of research undertaken by Census Bureau staff.

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Working Paper

The Effect of the SIPP Redesign on Employment and Earnings Data

August 1996

This paper describes the major changes introduced in the 1996 Panel CAPI instrument, focusing on the sections on employment status, and job.

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Working Paper

Social Security Earnings of Wives Relative to their Husbands

August 1996

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

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Working Paper

Developing Extended Measures of Well-Being

August 1996

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

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Working Paper

A Comparative Analysis of Health Insurance Coverage Estimates

August 1996

The main objectives of this paper are: 1) Analyze and compare recent trends in CPS and SIPP health insurance estimates.

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Working Paper

Evaluating the Quality of Income Data Collected

July 1996

This paper presents a follow-up to Vaughan's work by comparing 1990 SIPP, CPS, and benchmark estimates of aggregate income and recipiency.

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Working Paper

Who Moonlights and Why? Evidence from the SIPP

July 1996

Moonlighting workers represent a significant percentage of the labor force.

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Working Paper

Regression Adjustment for Nonresponse

June 1996

We describe a procedure to estimate the response probabilities when they are unknown.

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Working Paper

An Evaluation and Analysis of Reservation Wage Data from SIPP

June 1996

The reservation wage is an important element in an individual’s decision to participate in the labor market.

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Working Paper

Longitudinal Imputation of SIPP Food Stamp Benefits

June 1996

This research examines the current and three alternative longitudinal imputation methods as applied to the SIPP item of food stamp income.

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Working Paper

Compensating for Missing Wave Data in the SIPP

June 1996

A major problem in obtaining accurate estimates of income and program participation from the SIPP is nonresponse.

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Working Paper

Administrative Data as a Source of Medical Expenditures

June 1996

In this paper we explore the potential of future health services administrative data systems to improve the measurement of poverty.

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Working Paper

Past is Prologlue: Simulating Lifetime Social Security Earnings

March 1996

This paper projects lifetime Social Security earnings until retirement using data from the Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP).

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Working Paper

Reducing the Welfare Dependence of Single-Mother Families

March 1996

Riising health care costs and the related increased dependency on health insurance coverage has moved to the forefront of the US policy agenda in recent years.

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Working Paper

Fertility of American Men

March 1996

This paper examines the quality of the fertility data among men and women and the characteristics of the men who did not respond to the question on fertility.

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Working Paper

Experiences Conducting Cognitive Interviews with Adolescents

1996

The Census Bureau proposed extending one of the panels of the SIPP to ten years in order to examine the impact of welfare reform.

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Working Paper

The SIPP Cognitive Research Evaluation Experiment

January 1996

This paper describes the basic features of the experimental procedures and their evolution.

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Working Paper

Comparing Certain Effects of Redesign on Data from SIPP

January 1996

This paper will identify the incidence and estimate the magnitude of data differences between the 1995 DR data collected from the SIPP/CAPI.

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Working Paper

Program Participation and Attrition: The Empirical Evidence

January 1996

This paper is organized as follows. Section II presents the model used in this study.

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