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Working Paper

Survey of Program Dynamics (SPD): Pretest Evaluation Report

December 19, 1997

Welfare reform legislation was passed and the Census Bureau was mandated to conduct a survey to evaluate welfare reform and its impact on the nation.

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Working Paper

Updating the Poverty Thresholds with Expenditure Data

December 1997

This paper explores the empirical basis of the panel's recommendations and suggestions about setting and updating the poverty thresholds.

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Working Paper

The Development of the Orshansky Poverty Thresholds

September 1997

This paper first describes how Orshansky developed the poverty thresholds.

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Working Paper

Valuing Housing Subsidies in a Measure of Poverty in the SIPP

August 18, 1997

The Census Bureau currently estimates housing subsidies in the Current Population Survey to provide an estimate of the subsidy effect on poverty.

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Working Paper

The Case of Out-Of-Pocket Medical Expenditures

August 05, 1997

The Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP) is the premiere data source for computing poverty using the proposed alternative measurement methods.

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Working Paper

An Overview of Poverty Lines in the United States from 1904 to 1965

August 1997

To study the history of American poverty lines, one must be familiar with the concept of the "standard budget."

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Working Paper

Developing Poverty Thresholds Using Expenditure Data

August 1997

In this paper, we examine each five issues, focusing on the data and methodological issues related to the estimation of thresholds using CE data.

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Working Paper

Small Domain Methodology for Estimating Income and Poverty

August 1997

This paper reports methodology and underlying estimates for 1993 of income and poverty by state produced as part of the Census Bureau's SAIPE project.

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Working Paper

Valuing Housing Subsidies in a New Measure of Poverty Using the CPS

August 1997

It is intuitively obvious that adding near-cash equivalents to cash income reduces the poverty rate.

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Working Paper

Measuring the Impact of Welfare Reform: Issues in Designing the SPD

1997

In this paper, we describe challenges we faced in developing, designing and testing two new survey instruments.

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Working Paper

Changing the Way the United States Measures Income and Poverty

May 1997

This paper discusses alternative definitions of income and considerations in measuring poverty.

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Working Paper

Who's at Risk? Designing a Medical Care Risk Index

May 01, 1997

This paper strives to operationalize the concept of a Medical Care Risk Index and recommend an approach for computing the index.

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Working Paper

In Search of Truth “How Much do Americans Spend on their Health Care?”

April 1997

The purpose of this memo is to explore what we know about American’s spending on health care and especially how much of it comes out of the family’s budgets.

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Working Paper

Tracking Devolution: The Survey of Program Dynamics

March 29, 1997

In this paper, we discuss some of the background leading up to the development of the survey, the basic design as currently formulated, and more.

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Working Paper

What Are the Issues in Implementing the Survey of Program Dynamics?

March 24, 1997

We are planning a Survey of Program Dynamics to simultaneously measure important features of the full range of welfare and other social and economic programs.

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Working Paper

Experimental Poverty Measurement for the 1990’s

February 09, 1997

The purpose of this paper is to report on operationalizing the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) Panel’s basic proposed procedure in a test environment.

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Working Paper

A Small-Area View of Poverty from the Panel

1997

The current small-area estimates program stems form the 1994 amendments to the Elementry and Seconday Education Act.

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Working Paper

Methods Used for Small Area Poverty and Income Estimates

1997

Existing postcensal estimates of poverty and income at the county level are considered inadequate for various reasons.

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Working Paper

The Effect of Nonfamily Household Relationships on Measures of Poverty

January 1997

This paper used the 1990 and 1992 SIPP to examine several of the practical and conceptual issues of changing the definition of "family."

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