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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
Changes in Self-Rated Health Status by Demographic Characteristics among Adults, 2014-2017
We use data from the Survey of Income and Program Participation to explore changes in health status over time by sex, age, and race and Hispanic origin.
Working Paper
The Effects of Monetary Incentives on Income Data Quality in the SIPP
We find monetary incentives in the Survey of Income and Program Participation lower item nonresponse rates and measurement errors for some income questions.
Working Paper
The Demographics of Disability in the Family
This study describes the prevalence and characteristics of disability in the family, as well as implications of disability for family financial well-being.
Working Paper
Case Notes to Explore Respondents' Interaction with Health Insurance
This poster uses field representatives’ case notes to explore respondents’ interaction with health insurance questions.
Working Paper
It’s Family Time! Parent-Child Interactions by Race and Ethnicity
Frequent parent-child dinners, outings and reading varied by race and ethnicity, socioeconomic characteristics, before and after the COVID-19 pandemic.
Working Paper
Marital and Fertility Histories’ Association With Financial Resources
Most women and men aged 45 and older ever married before they had child(ren).
Working Paper
Family Pies: Effects of Family Resource Shares in Childhood
Effects of birth order on various outcomes have been extensively studied in both life sciences and social sciences.
Working Paper
SNAP Receipt in SIPP: Using Administrative Records to Evaluate Data Quality
This conference paper examines SNAP survey data quality using the 2014-2020 SIPP data linked to select state-level administrative records.
Working Paper
The Retirement Income of the Prime Working Aged
This conference paper examines early pension and retirement account withdrawals using SIPP linked to administrative records.
Working Paper
Unbanked and Impoverished? Exploring Banking and Poverty Interactions
Using three leading household surveys, this paper documents how the interaction
between bank access and poverty has evolved over time.
Working Paper
Effects of Monetary Incentives on Earnings Non-Response in the SIPP
This paper exploits a multi-wave random monetary incentive experiment for the SIPP 2014 panel to examine the effect of incentives on earnings non-response.
Working Paper
Student Debt and Its Co-Occurrence with Other Types of Debt
This presentation uses a descriptive accounting of student loans and their connection to other types of debt.
Working Paper
Leave Usage Following a First Birth Among Men in the United States
This paper uses SIPP data to describe patterns of leave usage among men over time and model factors associated with the likelihood of men to take leave.
Working Paper
Evaluation of the Reintroduced Parental Leave Content in the 2019 SIPP
The purpose of this paper is to note basic distributions and corresponding allocation rates for the parental leave content in 2019.
Working Paper
A Penny Synthesized is a Penny Earned?
The Census Bureau has expressed interest in using modern synthetic data modeling techniques for privacy and confidentiality protection in future releases.
Working Paper
Parenthood and Partnerships Among Young Adults
This paper uses the 2018 SIPP to analyze the socioeconomic characteristics, living arrangements, and parental involvement patterns of parents 15-22 years old.
Working Paper
Evaluating Wealth Data in Wave 4 of the Redesigned 2014 SIPP
This paper supports the careful use of SIPP data by researchers by examining how changes to the 2014 SIPP affected wealth data quality over the Panel.
Working Paper
Is Retirement More Unequal Than We Think?
This conference paper examines income inequality among older households using SIPP linked to administrative records.
Working Paper
Child Well-Being and Transitions in the Presence of Parents
Study uses 2018 SIPP data to address children’s selection into family instability & analyze the relationship between parental transitions & child well-being.
Working Paper
Risk of Parental Death Across the Life Course
This paper estimates the risk of parental death across the life course using data from the 2014 Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP).
Working Paper
Benchmarking the Redesigned Survey of Income and Program Participation
This poster compares estimates of social insurance and pension income in SIPP, National Income and Product Accounts, and administrative records.
Working Paper
Student Debt Discourages Young Workers from Becoming Self-Employed
This paper examines the relationship between student debt and self-employment for young adults using the SIPP and Administrative Records.
Working Paper
Synthesizing Familial Linkages for Privacy in Microdata
Synthetic data has become a successful way to provide external researchers a chance to conduct a wide variety of analyses on microdata.
Working Paper
Minimum Wages, Retirement Timing, and Labor Supply
We use linked survey-administrative data to study the impact of minimum wage increases on Social Security retirement benefit claiming behavior and labor supply
Working Paper
Poverty and the Incidence of Material Hardship, Revisited
This working paper uses the Survey of Income and Program Participation to examine trends in hardship over time.
Working Paper
SIPP Administrative Data Survey Weights
This project performs initial research on incorporating administrative data into the weighting algorithm for the Survey of Income and Program Participation.
Working Paper
What is a Primary Occupation? Comparing Occupation Measures in the ACS and the SIPP
This paper compares the 2013 ACS 1-year estimates with the SIPP 2014 Panel, Wave 1 estimates to assess if occupation is measured consistently across surveys.
Working Paper
Where’s Daddy? Challenges in the Measurement of Men’s Fertility
We dissect differences in men’s and women’s fertility as represented in the SIPP and argue that these data offer evidence of a “missing man” problem.
Working Paper
The Use and Misuse of Income Data and Extreme Poverty
This paper examines extreme poverty in the U.S. using household surveys linked to administrative records.
Working Paper
2014 SIPP Evaluation Report: Class of Worker, Industry, and Occupation
This report describes the data review process for I&O content appearing on the SIPP 2014 Panel, Waves 1 and 2, and assesses the SIPP public use files.
Working Paper
Poverty Dynamics: An Overview of Longitudinal Poverty Estimates
This paper describes poverty using measures with different time horizons and studies the frequency of transitions into and out of poverty in the United States.
Working Paper
Family Complexity and Child Well-Being
Poster presentation on family complexity and child well-being, presented at the 2019 Southern Demographic Association meeting.
Working Paper
Do Interviewer Observation Agree with Previously Collected Survey Data
This paper explores the extent to which interviewer-generated reports of household demographic characteristics agree with previously collected survey reports.
Working Paper
Fathering Across Households
This paper uses a large, nationally representative dataset to examine the complexities of men’s fathering of minor children.
Working Paper
Implementing the 2018 Standard Occupational Classification System
Learn how the Census will implement the 2018 Census Occupation Code list and how classifications have changed over time.
Working Paper
A History of the Survey of Income and Program Participation
The U.S. Census Bureau conducts the Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP) under Title 13, U.S. Code, Section 9.
Page Last Revised - October 8, 2021
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