Event history analysis is one of the more promising new tools available to academic and policy analysts interested in the dynamic processes underlying employment and program participation behavior. The monthly dating of occupation and industry employment, along with its large size and national representativeness, potentially make the SIPP one of the most attractive data bases for such analyses. The extent to which the well documented measurement errors in the SIPP (and all other panel studies with reference periods longer than the basic unit of measurement) detract from this potential is not well understood. The natural experiment resulting from the overlap in the 1985 and 1986 SIPP Panels, which differ only in the method of collecting occupation and industry data, provides a unique opportunity to gain insight into the effect of measurement errors on event history analysis.

Others in Series

Working Paper

Alternative Samples for Welfare Duration in SIPP

June 1991

This paper focuses on the impact of alternate treatment of sample attrition when defining spells of welfare receipt by unmarried mothers.

Working Paper

Within-PSU Sort & Stratification Research to Improve Survey Efficiency

June 1991

This paper describes the research for an optimal sort and stratification scheme to reduce the within-PSU variance of key survey estimates.

Working Paper

A Random-Effects Approach to Attrition Bias in SIPP Health Ins. Data

June 1991

This paper describes a test for the presence of attrition bias and a consistent estimator for the level of health insurance coverage.

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