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Census Bureau research made available to others to encourage discussion on a range of topics, by release year.


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Working Paper
Measuring Poverty: Issues and Approaches
Formal measurement of poverty in the United States is less than three decades old.


Working Paper
Structure and Consequences of Eligibility Rules for a Social Program
The primary goal of the JTPA program is to improve the skills and labor market opportunities of disadvantaged workers.


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Overview of Redesign Methodology for SIPP
This paper gives a general description of the major areas of the redesign methodology. Section II of this paper defines the primary sampling unit.


Working Paper
Have Our Methods of Poverty Measurement Blinded Us to Who is Poor?
Conventional wisdom in poverty research states that children are at greater risk of being poor than are the elderly.


Working Paper
Continuing Research on Use of Administrative Data in SIPP
The SIPP currently uses cross-classifications of age, race, sex, householder/nonhouseholder status as controls in longitudinal estimation.


Working Paper
Income and Poverty Time Series Data from SIPP
This paper will present what we can currently provide for time series data from the SIPP.


Working Paper
Surveys-On-Call: On-Line Access to Survey Data
The purpose of this paper is to describe the Surveys-On-Call system for users and to present a simple users’ guide that will assist in the use of the system.


Working Paper
Do Proposed Revisions of the Poverty Measure Matter for Rural America?
The current official poverty measure was developed about 30 years ago, and has remained almost unchanged, except for inflation adjustments, up to the present.


Working Paper
Regression Weighting Methods for SIPP Data
We compare regression weighting methods for the Panel 1987 data from SIPP.


Working Paper
Adjusting for Attrition in Event History Analysis
The sensitivity of parameter estimates of event history models to alternative methods of correcting for panel attrition is not well understood.


Working Paper
Nonresponse Research Plans for the SIPP
Nonresponse bias is an important concern for longitudinal surveys such as the Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP).


Working Paper
The SIPP Measurement Quality Experiment and Beyond
This paper describes an ambitious project whose goal was to reduce SIPP response error importantly by radically changing the way income data were collected.

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