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Working Paper
Re-Estimating Employer Contributions to Health Insurance in the CPS ASEC
This working paper uses public data from the MEPS linked tot he CPS ASEC to estimate employer contributions to health insurance.


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2022 American Community Survey Content Test Evaluation Report: Exploratory Analysis for Industry and Occupation and Class of Worker
Exploratory analysis of class of worker, industry, and occupation using results from the 2022 ACS Content Test.


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Category Cohesion: Using a Similarity Index to Understand the Measurement and Meaning of Occupations
Occupations are defined as categories of work containing similar jobs and tasks. But how similar are these jobs and tasks?


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Counting the Hustle: Platform Workers and Digital Entrepreneurship in Federal Household Surveys
Workers who use digital platforms or apps to earn income are a small but growing segment of the civilian workforce.


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2022 ACS Content Test: Round 3 Cognitive Testing Results
This report summarizes results from Round 3 of cognitive testing, which gathered feedback from individuals in groups quarters facilities and Puerto Rico.


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Effects of Monetary Incentives on Earnings Non-Response in the SIPP
This paper exploits a multi-wave random monetary incentive experiment for the SIPP 2014 panel to examine the effect of incentives on earnings non-response.


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2022 ACS Content Test: Round 1 and Round 2 Cognitive Testing Results
This report summarizes results from two rounds of cognitive testing for the 2022 ACS Content Test.


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Essential, Frontline, and High Risk: How COVID-19 Prioritized Low-wage
Who is essential, frontline, and high risk has changed during the COVID-19 pandemic.


Working Paper
Leave Usage Following a First Birth Among Men in the United States
This paper uses SIPP data to describe patterns of leave usage among men over time and model factors associated with the likelihood of men to take leave.


Working Paper
Self-Employment Status: Imputations, Implications, and Improvements
A paper that examines the quality of self-employment imputation in Census surveys.


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Digitizing Hand-Written Data with Automated Methods: A Pilot Project Using the 1990 U.S. Census
In this paper, we document the 1990 Census Name Recovery Pilot (NRP) project, which was used to identify the most accurate and cost-effective means to recover respondent names, focusing on the example of the 1990 census.


Working Paper
Addressing Nonresponse Bias in the ACS Using Administrative Data
Learn how the pandemic disrupted ACS data collection in 2020 and why the 2020 ACS 1-year estimates will be released as an experimental product.


Working Paper
The Summary Earnings Record and Detailed Earnings Record Extracts
This paper describes the history and contents of the restricted-use Summary Earnings Record (SER) data and the Detailed Earnings Records (DER) data extracts that can be linked to the Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP) and the Current Population Survey (CPS) Annual Social and Economic Supplement (ASEC).


Working Paper
Justice-involved Individuals in the Labor Market since the Great Recession
This paper examines how individuals convicted of a felony or released from prison have fared in the labor market since the Great Recession.


Working Paper
Evaluating Wealth Data in Wave 4 of the Redesigned 2014 SIPP
This paper supports the careful use of SIPP data by researchers by examining how changes to the 2014 SIPP affected wealth data quality over the Panel.


Working Paper
Student Debt Discourages Young Workers from Becoming Self-Employed
This paper examines the relationship between student debt and self-employment for young adults using the SIPP and Administrative Records.


Working Paper
SIPP Administrative Data Survey Weights
This project performs initial research on incorporating administrative data into the weighting algorithm for the Survey of Income and Program Participation.


Working Paper
What is a Primary Occupation? Comparing Occupation Measures in the ACS and the SIPP
This paper compares the 2013 ACS 1-year estimates with the SIPP 2014 Panel, Wave 1 estimates to assess if occupation is measured consistently across surveys.


Working Paper
Where’s Daddy? Challenges in the Measurement of Men’s Fertility
We dissect differences in men’s and women’s fertility as represented in the SIPP and argue that these data offer evidence of a “missing man” problem.


Working Paper
2014 SIPP Evaluation Report: Class of Worker, Industry, and Occupation
This report describes the data review process for I&O content appearing on the SIPP 2014 Panel, Waves 1 and 2, and assesses the SIPP public use files.


Working Paper
STEM Workers in the Manufacturing Sector
This paper focuses on science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) workers in the manufacturing sector.


Working Paper
Barriers to Workplace Inclusion for First Generation Professionals
Focus groups and qualitative interviews were conducted to investigate potential barriers to workplace inclusion for First Generation Professionals.


Working Paper
Implementing the 2018 Standard Occupational Classification System
Learn how the Census will implement the 2018 Census Occupation Code list and how classifications have changed over time.


Working Paper
Racial Disparities in Women’s Occupational Mobility
Racial disparities exist in occupational mobility, with Black and Hispanic women less likely to exit service occupations than White, non-Hispanic women.


Working Paper
The Intersectionality of the STEM Workforce
Does employment in STEM occupations differ by sex, race and Hispanic origin?


Working Paper
Measuring Entrepreneurship in the American Community Survey
Who are the self-employed, and what industries and occupations do they choose?


Working Paper
Gender, Work Context and Nonstandard Work Schedules Among Parents
This paper uses SIPP 2014 to analyze parents working a nonstandard schedule.


Working Paper
How husbands and wives report their earnings when she earns more
This paper compares the earnings reported for husbands and wives in the CPS with their “true” earnings from administrative income-tax records.


Working Paper
Unpacking Earnings of the Foreign-Born Workforce
Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Population Association of America.


Working Paper
The Foreign-Born Labor Force in the United States, 2016
Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Population Association of America.


Working Paper
The Foreign-Born Population from Europe, 2016
Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Population Association of America.


Working Paper
Changes in Offer and Take-up of Employer Sponsored Health Insurance
Poster presented at the 2016 Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management (APPAM) conference.


Working Paper
Measuring the Dollar Value of Employer-Provided Health Insurance Contribution: A Synthetic Approach
This poster shows a new model-based estimate of employer contributions to health insurance premiums in the CPS ASEC using publicly available MEPS data.


Working Paper
Measuring the Cost of Employment: Work-Related Expenses in the SPM
Median weekly work-related expenses for 2015 increase from $40.22, using Wave 10 of the 2008 SIPP, to $47.17 using Wave 1 of the 2014 SIPP.


Working Paper
2016 American Community Survey Content Test: Industry and Occupation
Results from the 2016 ACS Content Test of the questions about Industry and Occupation.


Working Paper
Parents Working Nonstandard Schedules: Who’s Burning the Midnight Oil?
This poster uses SIPP 2014, Wave 1 to analyze families in which a parent works a nonstandard schedule.

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