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Measurement errors in household surveys are inevitable. Yet they are not always well understood and, if one wanted to do something about them, it is not always clear what to do. Our goal in this paper is to contribute to the understanding of response errors in SIPP and begin a consideration of what to do about them.
We will report the results of a record check study for the Survey of Income and Program Participation. The study covers 8 months of reported participation in 8 programs for the SIPP sample in 4 states.
Our results indicate that while misclassification errors in reports of participation level and change are rare, they sometimes result in important amounts of net response bias and in important amounts of attenuation of estimates of relationships.
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