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Respondents who do not indicate eligibility for means-tested programs through a series of income and program screener questions are not asked questions about a series of small, means-tested annual programs, including food assistance (such as receiving food from food banks), transportation assistance (such as receiving free ride programs), job training (such as attending job readiness courses), or clothing or housing assistance. Beginning with 2018 SIPP, these respondents were assigned a value of "2" (no, did not receive assistance) and a status flag value of “3” (logical imputation) in this series. This change increased the size of the universe for these items and the logical-imputation rate for status flags associated with the variables.
Internal income and program screener variables used to set the universe for this content are not available on the public-use file. Data users cannot recreate the universe and should be aware of this change when analyzing Other Assistance data. Users can approximate the instrument universe and pre-SIPP 2018 data by excluding observations with a “3” (logical imputation) status flag value.
The below variables are affected by this change.
Variable name |
Description |
Food assistance |
|
EFOOD_TYPE1 |
Received money, vouchers, or certificates to buy groceries or food other than Food Stamps |
EFOOD_TYPE2 |
Received bags of groceries or packaged foods |
EFOOD_TYPE3 |
Received any meals from a shelter, soup kitchen, Meals- on-Wheels, or other charity |
EFOOD_OTH |
Received some other kind of food assistance |
EFOOD_MNYN |
Received food assistance not SNAP this month |
Transportation assistance |
|
ETRANS_TYPE1 |
Received gas vouchers |
ETRANS_TYPE2 |
Received bus or subway tokens or passes |
ETRANS_TYPE3 |
Received help registering, repairing, or insuring a car |
ETRANS_TYPE4 |
Received rides to a doctor's office or medical appointment |
ETRANS_OTH |
Received some other kind of transportation assistance |
ETRANS_MNYN |
Received transportation assistance this month |
Job training assistance |
|
EWELACTV1 |
Attended classes to improve basic reading or math skills |
EWELACTV2_1 |
Attended job readiness training to learn about resume writing, job interviewing, or building self-esteem |
EWELACTV2_2 |
Attended job search program or job clubs, or use any job resource centers to find out about jobs, to schedule interviews, or to fill out applications |
EWELACTV2_3 |
Attended training to learn specific job skills, such as computers, car repair, nursing, day care work, or some other job skills |
EWELAC_MNYN |
Received training assistance this month |
Clothing and housing assistance |
|
ECLTH_TYPE |
Received clothes, money or vouchers, or both, to buy clothing |
ECLTH_SR1YN |
Received clothing assistances from a government social service agency |
ECLTH_SR2YN |
Received clothing assistances from a community or religious charitable organization |
ECLTH_SR3YN |
Received clothing assistances from family or friends |
ECLTH_SR4YN |
Received clothing assistances from an employer |
ECLTH_SR5YN |
Received clothing assistances from someplace else |
EHOUSE_ANY |
Received assistance to help pay for housing |
EOTHAS_MNYN |
Received other clothing or housing assistance this month |
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