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The Income Survey Development Program (ISDP) was conducted by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the Bureau of the Census to examine and resolve operational, technical, and content issues in the design of the Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP). The SIPP, planned as a national longitudinal household survey program to collect data on cash and in-kind income, program eligibility and participation, net worth and related variables, was scheduled to begin in 1982. Although eight million dollars and twenty-six positions were included in the Administration's Budget before Congress, the Social Security Administration's request was not confirmed and SSA work relating to the SIPP was terminated. Information concerning the ISDP and the SIPP may be found in Kasprzyk and Lininger [38], Lininger [40] and Ycas and Lininger [51].
The Special Frames Study was initiated in July and August 1980 as the fourth field activity of the ISDP. This activity was a five State pilot survey of 1900 persons and members of their households selected from six administrative record systems. Personal interviews were conducted to provide an income profile of each adult selected for the study. The purposes of the Special Frames Study were primarily methodological:
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