The Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP) is a complex survey conducted by the Census Bureau to provide information for federal policy makers and academic analysts on topics such as part-year poverty, government program participation and eligibility, health insurance coverage, and income distributions. The SIPP has been used as a multi-purpose survey providing cross-sectional, longitudinal and current event information. The primary goal of the survey though is a longitudinal one - select a nationally representative sample of households and follow the people in those households to assess changes in their characteristics over time. Quite often, the multi-purpose uses of the data have compromised the longitudinal uses in terms of sample size, data product availability and important longitudinal analyses.

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Working Paper

Weighting Adjustments for Panel Nonresponse in the SIPP

October 1994

This report presents the findings of an investigation of alternative forms of weighting adjustment to compensate for panel nonresponse in the SIPP.

Working Paper

Overview of SIPP Nonresponse Research

September 1994

Nonresponse is an important source of bias for longitudinal surveys. Longitudinal surveys like the SIPP require a number of interviews over a period of years.

Working Paper

Adjusting for Attrition in Event History Analysis

April 1995

The sensitivity of parameter estimates of event history models to alternative methods of correcting for panel attrition is not well understood.

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Survey of Income and Program Participation Working Papers

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