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Working Paper

The Effects of the Changes to the CPS-ASEC on Estimates of Income

January 2015

This paper presents the resulting income estimates based on changes to the CPS Annual Social and Economic Supplement questionnaire on income estimates.

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Working Paper

Comparing Income Aggregates: 2007-2012

January 2015

This paper compares income aggregates from Census survey data to administrative benchmarks from the BEA's National Income and Product Accounts (NIPA).

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Working Paper

Expert Meeting on Income, Poverty, and Health Insurance

March 20, 2015

Presentations from the Expert Meeting on Income, Poverty, and Health Insurance held on March 20, 2015 at Census Bureau Headquarters

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Working Paper

Bridging a Survey Redesign Using Multiple Imputation

September 2015

This paper discusses using multiple imputation techniques to combine sub-samples of the traditional and redesigned 2014 CPS ASEC.

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Working Paper

Discrepancies Between Measured Income in the AHS and the CPS

March 27, 2003

This examines the hypothesis that lower income amounts are reported in the AHS (because the form is less detailed than the CPS) and aims to modify the form.

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Working Paper

Defining Poverty in Terms of Time and Income: Parental Time

April 12, 2013

This poster was presented at PAA. It looks at poverty in terms of time use using time diary data to identify families who are income poor, time poor, and both.

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Working Paper

Evaluating the 2013 CPS ASEC Income Redesign Content Test

2013

CPS ASEC is the official source of US national poverty stats. The questionnaire redesign aims to update questions on retirement income and health insurance.

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Working Paper

Noncognitive Skills and the Racial Wage Gap

2011

This poster was presented at PAA. It adds two measures of noncognitive skills, locus of control and self-esteem, to determine the effect on the racial wage gap.

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Working Paper

Valuing Housing in Measures of Household & Family Economic Well-Being

March 2008

This examines the incorporation of housing benefits in measures of economic well being to account for rental income, financing changes, subsidies and expenses.

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Working Paper

A Look at CPS Non-Response and Trends in Poverty

2012

This paper assesses the extent of the bias in poverty rates caused by earnings non-response and the hot deck procedure over the time period 1997-2008.

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Working Paper

Median Income and Earnings Estimates: Comparison of ACS and CPS

March 12, 2007

Comparison of national estimates of income between the 2004 and 2005 ACS and the 2005 and 2006 CPS ASEC.

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Working Paper

Using SNAP Admin Records and TRIM3 to Evaluate Poverty Measurement

April 25, 2018

In this paper, we link state SNAP administrative records and Transfer Income Model data to the CPS ASEC to examine two outcomes related to poverty measurement.

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Working Paper

Deconstructing Poverty Rates among the 65 and Older Population

April 26, 2018

This paper investigates the underlying causes and explanations of the first increase in 6 years in poverty among individuals aged 65 and over using the SPM.

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Working Paper

SPM Median Rent Index Excluding Housing Assistance Recipients

July 2018

This paper evaluates the impact of excluding housing assistance recipients from the estimation of the index used to adjust thresholds for the SPM.

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Working Paper

Wage Data Quality Assessment in the March CPS and the SIPP

November 19, 2002

This report assesses the data quality of annual wage data in the March CPS and the SIPP.

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Working Paper

The Administrative Income Statistics (AIS) Project: Research on the Use of Administrative Records to Improve Income and Resource Estimates

October 02, 2019

We review research on mis-reporting and non-response bias in income surveys. We discuss research needed to use administrative data to reduce these biases.

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Working Paper

The Living Arrangements of Young Adults in the U.S. 1995-2011

October 2012

Examines how changes in living arrangements for young adults over the period were affected by the recession.

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Working Paper

Effects of 2020 Census-Based Population Controls on 2020 Estimates

August 2022

This paper demonstrates the effect of using the 2020 Census-based population controls on the 2020 data by presenting key estimates using both the 2010 and 2020

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Working Paper

School Lunch and P-EBT Valuation in the 2021 SPM

September 2022

This paper describes the updated method for calculating and assigning school lunch values in the 2021 SPM.

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Working Paper

Coronavirus Infects Surveys, Too: Survey Nonresponse Bias

March 30, 2021

This paper evaluates how response in the Current Population Survey Annual Social and Economic Supplement (CPS ASEC) was affected by COVID-19.

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Working Paper

Do Older Americans Have More Income Than We Think?

July 25, 2017

This paper reassesses income and poverty statistics for the population aged 65 and over using the CPS ASEC linked to IRS and SSA administrative records.

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Working Paper

Unbanked and Impoverished? Exploring Banking and Poverty Interactions

September 2022

Using three leading household surveys, this paper documents how the interaction between bank access and poverty has evolved over time.

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Working Paper

Modeling State Tax Rebate Payments in the 2022 CPS ASEC

September 2023

This paper summarizes state income tax rebates issued in 2022, inclusion of these payments in Census’s tax model, and impacts on post-tax income estimates.

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Working Paper

Alternative School Lunch Valuation in the 2022 Supplemental Poverty Measure

September 12, 2023

This paper describes the updated method for calculating and assigning school lunch values in the 2022 SPM.

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