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Income Working Papers

Working papers are intended to make results of Census Bureau research available to others and to encourage discussion on a variety of topics. They have not undergone a review and editorial process generally accorded official Census Bureau publications.

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Working Paper
The Effect of the SIPP Redesign on Employment and Earnings Data
This paper describes the major changes introduced in the 1996 Panel focusing on the sections on employment status, job & employer characteristics, and earnings.


Working Paper
Social Security Earnings of Wives Relative to their Husbands
An extension of a previous evaluation in which the effectiveness of the methods in estimating amounts for food stamps recipiency was evaluated.


Working Paper
Evaluating the Quality of Income Data Collected in the CPS & the SIPP
A comparison of SIPP and March CPS data collection and processing procedures as a basis for comparability, highlighting main sources of nonsampling error.


Working Paper
An Evaluation and Analysis of Reservation Wage Data from SIPP
The reservation wage is an important element in an individual’s decision to participate in the labor market.


Working Paper
Longitudinal Imputation of SIPP Food Stamp Benefits
This research examines the current and three alternative longitudinal imputation methods as applied to the SIPP item of food stamp income.


Working Paper
Research on Characteristics of SIPP Nonrespondents Using IRS Data
Nonresponse increases with successive interviews, causing the sample to become less representative of the population it is approximating.


Working Paper
Past is Prologue: Simulating Lifetime Social Security Earnings
This paper projects lifetime Social Security earnings until retirement using data from the SIPP matched to Social Security records of annual earnings.


Working Paper
The SIPP Cognitive Research Evaluation Experiment
This paper describes the basic features of the experimental procedures,their evolution, and implementation of those procedures.

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