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The purpose for the research was to create and cognitively pretest an alternative administrative records use disclosure paragraph, to be embedded in the revised advance letter for the Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP). The newly created paragraph will be part of an experiment scheduled for Replicate 3 of the SIPP Methods Panel (Summer 2002). This experiment plans to compare unit response rates between households receiving the traditional administrative records use disclosure paragraph (i.e., Social Security number paragraph) and the newly created alternative paragraph, which does not mention Social Security Number (SSN). The need for such an alternative disclosure paragraph is, in part, driven by the Census Bureau’s ability and desire to link survey data with administrative records from other government agencies without the assistance of an individual’s Social Security number. In addition to cognitively pretesting an alternative disclosure paragraph, a prototype “permission” question was created and fielded during this research, to gain a cursory assessment of a question that directly asks respondents’ permission to combine their survey answers with existing administrative records.
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