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Current Population Survey (CPS) Working Papers
Resarch and analysis of the Current Population Survey by Census Bureau authors.
Working Paper
Exploring a Method to Produce County-Level Supplemental Poverty Measure Estimates in the American Community Survey
The goal of this paper is to release a methodology to produce county-level Supplemental Poverty Measure (SPM) estimates from the 1-year ACS.
Working Paper
A Test of Alternative Child Care Expense Capping in the Supplemental Poverty Measure
This paper explores implementation of a recommended change to capping child care expenses in the Supplemental Poverty Measure (SPM) for key groups of parents.
Working Paper
Re-Estimating Employer Contributions to Health Insurance in the CPS ASEC
This working paper uses public data from the MEPS linked tot he CPS ASEC to estimate employer contributions to health insurance.
Working Paper
Updating Historical Supplemental Poverty Estimates For 2021 Methodology Changes
This paper presents revised Supplemental Poverty Measure (SPM) rates from 2009 to 2018 using the revised methodology first implemented for 2019 SPM rates.
Working Paper
Alternative School Lunch Valuation in the 2022 Supplemental Poverty Measure
This paper describes the updated method for calculating and assigning school lunch values in the 2022 SPM.
Working Paper
Modeling State Tax Rebate Payments in the 2022 CPS ASEC
This 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.
Working Paper
The Impact of New Disclosure Avoidance Procedures on Estimating Supplemental Poverty Rates Using Public Microdata Files
This paper compares poverty estimates between the internal and public use 2022 and 2023 Current Population Survey Annual Social and Economic Supplements.
Working Paper
Who Had Pandemic Babies? Exploring the Profiles of Mothers with a Recent Birth Using ACS Data
This paper uses American Community Survey data to explore the characteristics of mothers with recent births before and after the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Working Paper
An Assessment of the June 2020 CPS Fertility Supplement
The purpose of this paper is to examine the quality of the June 2020 CPS Fertility Supplement.
Working Paper
Monthly Financial Insecurity Estimates using the Household Pulse Survey
This paper is a comparison of monthly financial insecurity and poverty estimates.
Working Paper
Cognitive Pretesting of the Internet Use Survey
Testing new and revised questions including underreporting of cyberbullying and cost as a reason why people do not access the internet at home.
Working Paper
School Lunch and P-EBT Valuation in the 2021 SPM
This paper describes the updated method for calculating and assigning school lunch values in the 2021 SPM.
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 2020 Census-Based Population Controls on 2020 Estimates
This paper demonstrates the effect of using the 2020 Census-based population controls on the 2020 data by presenting key estimates using both the 2010 and 2020
Working Paper
Parental Veteran Status and Poverty among U.S. Children
This poster uses the 2019 CPS ASEC to examine how coresidence with a veteran parent is associated with the chances that children live in or near poverty.
Working Paper
Cognitive Testing Results for the CPS Food Security Supplement
Testing on how participants interpreted new questions and modifications to existing questions about food insecurity and food purchases.
Working Paper
Coronavirus Infects Surveys, Too: Survey Nonresponse Bias
This paper evaluates how response in the Current Population Survey Annual Social and Economic Supplement (CPS ASEC) was affected by COVID-19.
Working Paper
Using Paired Cognitive Interviews to Assess Proxy Responses
Multiple participants from the same household were interviewed to explore the extent to which they provided the same answers to the same questions.
Working Paper
COVID-19 and Measuring Health Insurance Coverage in the 2020 CPS ASEC
This paper examines how changes to survey operations during the COVID-19 pandemic may have influenced health insurance coverage estimates for the 2020 CPS ASEC
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
The Administrative Income Statistics (AIS) Project: Research on the Use of Administrative Records to Improve Income and Resource Estimates
We review research on mis-reporting and non-response bias in income surveys. We discuss research needed to use administrative data to reduce these biases.
Working Paper
Updates to Collection and Editing of Household Relationship Measures
The paper details the new data collection and processing of household data in the Current Population Survey
Working Paper
Updates to Out-of-Pocket Medical Expenditures and Medicare Premiums
This working paper discusses the updates made to the processing of out-of-pocket medical expenditures and Medicare premiums.
Working Paper
Examining Year to Year Poverty Changes by CPS ASEC Processing Systems
This paper compares poverty rates in 2016 and 2017 between the legacy and updated CPS ASEC processing system, examining changes by demographic and income edits.
Working Paper
How did the questionnaire change affect health insurance estimates?
In 2018, the Census Bureau fielded a Split-Panel test of the Current Population Survey Annual Social and Economic Supplement (CPS ASEC).
Working Paper
Health Insurance in the United States: Evaluating the Effects of Changes in the CPS ASEC
This presentation describes estimates of health insurance coverage using the 2017 CPS ASEC Research File.
Working Paper
Uninsurance Estimates from the Redesigned Current Population Survey
This paper evaluates the quality of imputation procedures in the redesigned CPS ASEC.
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
Bridging Differences in the Measurement of Poverty
This paper examines how implementing the redesigned CPS ASEC processing system affects poverty rates in 2016, decomposing changes by demographic & income edits.
Working Paper
Changes to Household Data in CPS
This presentation details new changes to household data in CPS, specifically the noted improvement in measuring same-sex families and greater family diversity.
Working Paper
Health Insurance and Health Status for Same-Sex Couples
Family diversity has been increasing in the United States over the last few decades, especially as same-sex marriage and same-sex parenthood become more common.
Working Paper
A History of the Current Population Survey and Disclosure Avoidance
The U.S. Census Bureau conducts the monthly Current Population Survey (CPS) for the Bureau of Labor Statistics under Title 13, U.S. Code, Section 9
Working Paper
Health Insurance Coverage CPS: Estimates from the 2017 Research File
This paper compare health insurance coverage estimates between the CPS ASEC production and research files.
Working Paper
Health Insurance Coverage in the 2017 CPS ASEC Research File
This paper describes key changes implemented in the new processing system and present health insurance coverage estimates.
Working Paper
Incorporating Amenities into Geographic Adjustments of the SPM
Thresholds for the Supplemental Poverty Measure reflect differences in the cost of housing. This paper suggests an approach that takes into account amenities.
Working Paper
Using SNAP and TANF Admin Records to Evaluate Poverty Measurement
In this paper, we link SNAP and TANF administrative records and Transfer Income Model data to the CPS ASEC to examine outcomes related to poverty measurement.
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