Quality Profile for the Survey of Income and Program Participation

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Working Paper Number: SEHSD-WP1987-07 or SIPP-WP-30

This paper discusses the principal operations and sources of error found in surveys with reference to the Survey of Income and Program Participation.  The discussion primarily focuses on potential sources of nonsampling error and what, if anything, is known about their effect on SIPP estimates.  In addition, the report discusses SIPP sample size considerations, its effectiveness at detecting measures of change from year to year, and its reliability for subgroup analysis.

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