2024 SIPP: Imputation Fixes to School Enrollment

Prior to 2024 SIPP, the Educational Enrollment edits only imputed values of spell-level variables (eedgrade, eedftpt, eedtype, eedcred) for people who reported enrollment for the entire reference period. Starting with 2024 SIPP, Educational Enrollment edits impute for any month in which a person was enrolled. This change has added about 3000 person-month cases compared to the status quo. This constitutes a relatively small change: there are about 75,000 total person-month cases in the data. This change also does not affect comparability with past data. Data users should be aware of this change when analyzing school enrollment data.

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