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A Cognitive Approach to Redesigning Measurement in the Survey of Income and Program Participation
A Cognitive Approach to Redesigning Measurement in the Survey of Income and Program Participation
Working Paper Number SEHSD-WP1991-13 or SIPP-WP-150
The Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP) is a major information resource for policy scientists and planners in the United States. By helping analysts learn about the principal determinants and correlates of income and program participation among U.S. residents, SIPP helps improve our understanding of the financial well being of families and leads to meaningful improvements in national welfare and entitlement programs, employer mandates, and national tax policy.
The ability of SIPP to meet its objectives rests heavily on the quality of the survey measurements that determine its estimates. In this paper we will briefly examine the quality of selected SIPP measurements, examine some explanations for the observed errors, describe some changes we are proposing to make in the measurement design and discuss the evaluation of those changes.
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