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Taxes and Unit of Analysis
Taxes and Unit of Analysis
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Working PaperHistorical Post-Tax Income Estimates using the Current Population Survey Annual Social and Economic Supplement Tax ModelThis paper summarizes a new historical series of post-tax income estimates derived from the Census Bureau’s CPS ASEC Tax Model.
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Working PaperModeling State Tax Rebate Payments in the 2022 CPS ASECThis paper summarizes state income tax rebates issued in 2022, inclusion of these payments in Census’s tax model, and impacts on post-tax income estimates.
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Working PaperEstimates of Health Insurance Coverage, 2013 to 2022This paper describes the trends in health insurance coverage since 2013 while providing guidance on interpreting CPS ASEC data in the context of these changes.
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Working PaperMethods and Assumptions of the CPS ASEC Tax ModelThis paper details the methods and assumptions of the CPS ASEC Tax Model.
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Working PaperExamining the Effect of the Supplemental Poverty MeasurementThis presentation provides information about how the ACS handles households with unrelated children under 15 years and households with unmarried partners.
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Working PaperThe "Family/Couple/Household" Unit of Analysis in Poverty MeasurementThe unit of analysis used in poverty measurement continues to receive critical scrutiny.
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Social, Economic, and Housing Statistics Division Working Papers (SEHSD)Cohabitation and the Measurement of Child PovertyWe use 1990 U.S. Census of Population data to calculate what poverty rates would have been if cohabitors were treated in the same manner as married couples.
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Income and PovertyThe Effect of Different Tax Calculators on the SPMThis paper compares the Census Bureau’s tax model with the TAXSIM and Bakija models and shows how differences in tax estimates affect the SPM.
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Working PaperExamining the Incidence and Depth of Poverty in the U.S. 2012This paper expands on information about estimates of a Supplemental Poverty Measure for the U.S. reported earlier (Short, 2012).
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Working PaperEvaluating the Use of the New Current PopulationIt appears that the main factor in all of the differences between the old and new tax model is driven by the potential use of the two parent pointers.
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Working PaperUnit of Analysis for Poverty MeasurementThis paper examines how the change in unit of analysis from the family definition used impacts the composition of family units.
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Working PaperUnit of Analysis for Poverty MeasurementIn 2009 the Office of Management and Budget‟s Chief Statistician formed an ITWG on Developing a Supplemental Poverty Measure.
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Working PaperEITC Estimates in the CPS ASEC Simulations of After - Tax IncomeThe SEHSD of the Census Bureau regularly releases estimates of household income for the United States using information collected in the CPS Annual Supplement.
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Working PaperAlternative Strategies for Grouping People into Resource UnitsInvestigates how poverty estimates change when additional interpersonal relationship information is available.
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Supplemental Poverty MeasureRevising Poverty Assignments of Unrelated Children in the SPM ReportThis paper describes a proposed revision to the assignment of “official” poverty status of unrelated individuals under age 15 in the SPM report.
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Working PaperThe Effect of Nonfamily Household Relationships on Measures of PovertyThis paper used the 1990 and 1992 SIPP to examine several of the practical and conceptual issues of changing the definition of "family."
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Working PaperConsumer Units, Households and Sharing: A View from the SIPPPoverty measures are based on assumptions about resource sharing for families and unrelated individuals.
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Working PaperMeasuring and Modeling Taxes in the SIPPThe need to generate accurate tax estimates led to an examination of the current methods of generating tax information.
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Working PaperTaking Account of Changing Living Arrangements and Childcare ExpensesThis paper has addressed two elements in an improved measure of poverty as recommended by the National Academy of Sciences.
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Working PaperModeling Shared Responsibility Payments from the Affordable Care ActThis paper explores the possibility of modeling and adding the shared responsibility payment from the Affordable Care Act into the CPS ASEC tax model.
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