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Welfare Recipient as Observed in the SIPP

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Working Paper Number SEHSD-WP1988-05 or SIPP-WP-65

Introduction

This paper examines welfare recipiency as reported in the 1984 Panel of the Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP).  The SIPP has many advantages for the analysis of welfare recipiency—most notably, it is a longitudinal panel covering a 32 month observation period, and it has a monthly accounting period.  The SIPP also focuses on a fairly large sample of households—about 20,000 in the first interview, declining to about 12,000 in the final interview—and it collects very detailed information on sources and amounts of income, as well as on family composition and related variables.

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