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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
Survey of Program Dynamics (SPD): Pretest Evaluation Report
Welfare reform legislation was passed and the Census Bureau was mandated to conduct a survey to evaluate welfare reform and its impact on the nation.
Working Paper
Valuing Housing Subsidies in a Measure of Poverty in the SIPP
The Census Bureau currently estimates housing subsidies in the Current Population Survey to provide an estimate of the subsidy effect on poverty.
Working Paper
The Case of Out-Of-Pocket Medical Expenditures
The Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP) is the premiere data source for computing poverty using the proposed alternative measurement methods.
Working Paper
Measuring the Impact of Welfare Reform: Issues in Designing the SPD
In this paper, we describe challenges we faced in developing, designing and testing two new survey instruments.
Working Paper
Who's at Risk? Designing a Medical Care Risk Index
This paper strives to operationalize the concept of a Medical Care Risk Index and recommend an approach for computing the index.
Working Paper
Changing the Way the United States Measures Income and Poverty
This paper discusses alternative definitions of income and considerations in measuring poverty.
Working Paper
Tracking Devolution: The Survey of Program Dynamics
In this paper, we discuss some of the background leading up to the development of the survey, the basic design as currently formulated, and more.
Working Paper
What Are the Issues in Implementing the Survey of Program Dynamics?
We are planning a Survey of Program Dynamics to simultaneously measure important features of the full range of welfare and other social and economic programs.
Working Paper
Experimental Poverty Measurement for the 1990’s
The purpose of this paper is to report on operationalizing the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) Panel’s basic proposed procedure in a test environment.
Working Paper
Income Measurement Error in Surveys: A Review
Because income data are germane to a wide array of important policy issues, income questions are almost ubiquitous in government-sponsored surveys.
Working Paper
The Effect of Nonfamily Household Relationships on Measures of Poverty
This 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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