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User Notes

2014 Panel Wave 4 User Notes

September 25, 2019

Assets

2014 Panel Wave 4: Errors in Debt Allocation Flag Variable Names

September 25, 2023

User note concerning variable names for allocation flags associated with EDEBT_CC, EDEBT_ED, EDEBT_OT, TDEBT_CC, TDEBT_ED, and TDEBT_OT.
2014 Panel Wave 4: Jointly Held Assets and Unsecured Debts Universes

August 14, 2023

User note concerning the universes for jointly held assets and unsecured debts.

Attainment

User Notes

2014 SIPP Panel Wave 4: Hot Deck Corrections for Attainment Values

July 23, 2025

User note concerning correction applied to attainment hot decks for EEDUC and RGED.
User Notes

2014 SIPP Panel Wave 4: Hot Deck Issues for ECERT, EPROCERT, EWHOCERT

July 23, 2025

User note concerning corrections applied to the hot decks for ECERT, EPROCERT, and EWHOCERT.
User Notes

2014 SIPP Wave 4: Universing Error for RGED

July 23, 2024

User note concerning universing error that omits respondents aged 15 to 17 with at least a high school credential from being assigned an RGED value.

Demographics

User Notes

2014 Panel Wave 4: Problems with Couples’ Monthly Data

September 25, 2019

User note concerning inconsistent information for cohabiting partner or spouse identifier at the monthly level.
User Notes

2014 Panel Wave 4: Problems with Registered Domestic Partnership Data

September 25, 2019

User note concerning inconsistent information between cohabiting partner identifiers at interview month.
User Notes

2014 Panel Wave 4: Problems with Relationship Data

September 25, 2019

User note concerning inconsistent relationships classification between pairs of people in monthly relationships.
User Notes

2014 Panel Wave 4: Status Flags for Household Relationship Variables

August 26, 2021

User note concerning assignment of status flags for individuals who do not have a value for household relationship variables.
User Notes

2014 Panel Wave 4: Illogical Relationship to Householder Values

February 11, 2022

User note concerning illogical relationship to householder values for a small number of cases.

Demographics (language spoken at home)

User Notes

2014 Panel Wave 4: ESPEAK Errors Affecting the Other Three Language Variables

User note concerning misclassified ESPEAK observations affecting TLANG1, EHOWWELL, and RLNGISOL.

Disability

User Notes

2014 Panel Wave 4: Dependent Interviewing and (EHEARING, ESEEING)

User note concerning Dependent Interviewing for Hearing and Seeing Difficulties.

Employment

User Notes

2014 Panel Wave 4: TPEARN Comparison User Note

August 26, 2020

A user note concerning, TPEARN and comparisons across SIPP panels.
User Notes

2014 Panel Wave 4: Inconsistent Industry and Occupation Codes

February 11, 2022

User note concerning varying industry and occupation codes for jobs held during the reference year.
User Notes

2014 Panel Wave 4: Business Profits Collection and Processing Issue

March 24, 2022

User note discussing an error with the business profits question asking for annual profits but allowing multiple reports.

Fertility History

User Notes

2014 Panel Wave 4: Problem with Fertility Status Flag Universe

August 18, 2020

User note concerning inconsistencies between a respondent’s universe status in fertility variable and the corresponding status flag.

Food Security

User Notes

2014 Panel Wave 4 SIPP: Hot-deck Allocation Error

January 03, 2025

User note concerning 2014-2022 SIPP Food Security hot-deck error.

Health Insurance

User Notes

2014 Panel Wave 4: Clarification on _SCRNR Health Insurance Variables

January 19, 2023

User note advising against the use of health insurance “_SCRNR” variables in favor of using recodes
User Notes

2014 Panel Wave 4: Health Insurance Begin/End Month Status Flag Error

July 23, 2025

User note concerning status flag error for begin- and end-month health insurance variables.

Language

User Notes

2014 Panel Wave 4: Data Issue Concerning ESPEAK and TLANG1

July 10, 2024

User note concerning errors affecting observations of ESPEAK and TLANG1

Marital History

User Notes

2014 Panel Wave 4: Problems with Marital History Data

September 25, 2019

User note concerning inconsistencies between a respondent’s monthly marital status during the reference period and other marital history variables.
User Notes

2014 Panel Wave 4: Registered Domestic Partnership Allocation Flag

January 04, 2021

User note concerning allocation flag values for registered domestic partnership variable (AREGDOMPART).

Poverty & Income

User Notes

2014 Panel Wave 4: Processing Error Affecting Total Family Income

July 23, 2025

User note concerning an error in the calculation of total family income including Type-2 persons (TFTOTINCT2).
User Notes

2014 Panel Wave 4: Social Security Processing Error and its Impact

August 14, 2023

User note regarding impact of error affecting calculation of monthly Social Security amounts on poverty rates.
User Notes

2014 Panel Wave 4: TPTOTINC, AFTOTINC, AHTOTINC, and AFTOTINCT2 Errors

July 10, 2024

User note concerning errors in the total personal income variable and the status flags for total family income and total household income.

Programs

User Notes

2014 Panel Wave 4: "Other Support Paid” Universe

January 19, 2023

User note concerning an error in the universe of “Other Support Paid”.
User Notes

2014 Panel Wave 4: Child Support Received

User note concerning incorrect or unavailable guardianship pointers resulted in the over-allocation of ECSAGREE and ECSANY.
User Notes

2014 Panel Wave 4: EEITC universe

March 04, 2020

User Note concerning EEITC universe in 2014 SIPP Panel.
User Notes

2014 Panel Wave 4: EHC Programs Reference Period Coverage Indicator

March 03, 2020

User Note concerning the reference period coverage indicator for SSI, SNAP, WIC, TANF, and GA.
User Notes

2014 Panel Wave 4: ETIMESPENT description

March 04, 2020

User Note concerning ETIMESPENT description in 2014 SIPP Panel.
User Notes

2014 Panel Wave 4: Earned Income Tax Credit variable (EEITC)

User Note concerning asset recodes of Earned Income Tax Credit variable (EEITC).
User Notes

2014 Panel Wave 4: Incorrect Metadata for Reason SSI Receipt Began

November 24, 2020

User note concerning originally published metadata for the reason SSI receipt began.
User Notes

2014 Panel Wave 4: Problems with Medicare Deduction Data

October 27, 2020

User Note concerning inconsistent universes in Medicare deduction data.
User Notes

2014 Panel Wave 4: Problems with Program and Retirement Income Data

User note concerning inconsistencies in annual and monthly Social Security, retirement, disability, survivor, and veterans’ income data.
User Notes

2014 Panel Wave 4: Processing Error Affecting Social Security

August 14, 2023

User note regarding error affecting calculation of monthly Social Security receipt amounts.
User Notes

2014 Panel Wave 4: Status Flag Error for Miscellaneous Income

July 10, 2024

User note concerning status flag error for “any miscellaneous income” receipt.
User Notes

2014 Panel Wave 4: Tax Returns

August 26, 2020

User note concerning an error in processing tax returns data.
User Notes

2014 Panel: EEITC universe description

March 04, 2020

User Note concerning EEITC universe description in 2014 SIPP Panel.
User Notes

2014 SIPP Wave 4: WIC

July 08, 2020

User note concerning men incorrectly categorized as receiving WIC in the 2014 panel.

Residences

User Notes

2014 Panel Wave 4: Change in Previous Tenure Status Imputation

August 26, 2020

User note concerning a change in tenure status imputation between the 2014 Panel and the 2018 SIPP.
User Notes

2014 Panel Wave 4: Corrections to Year and Month Moved

August 26, 2020

User note concerning issues with year and month moved in variables in the 2014 SIPP Panel, and corrections implemented in the 2018 SIPP.
User Notes

2014 Panel Wave 4: Identifying Residential Moves

August 26, 2020

User Note concerning identifying residential moves.
User Notes

2014 Panel Wave 4: Incorrect Duration of Residence Values in 2014

August 26, 2020

User note concerning incorrect duration of residence values in 2014 Panel Waves 3 and 4.

Weighting

User Notes

2014 SIPP Panel Wave 4: Replicate Weights

User Note concerning a change to replicate weight variable naming convention.
User Notes

2014 SIPP Panel Wave 4: Problems with WPFINWGT

January 16, 2020

User note concerning missing monthly person weight values.