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Working Paper

OASDI Benefit and Year of Death based on Exact Match to SSA Benefits

December 18, 2000

Describes two items that are being made available for the 1990 and 1991 panels of the SIPP from the benefit records of the SSA.

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Working Paper

Medical Care Needs in Poverty Thresholds

December 2000

This paper compares several methods of incorporating medical care needs into a revised poverty measure.

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Working Paper

The SIPP Methods Panel Improving Income Measurement

November 13, 2000

The objectives of the project are to improve response rates in SIPP, to reduce income under reporting, and to improve data quality.

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Working Paper

Response to Bavier’s Critique of the NRC Panel’s Recommendations

November 2000

In a series of three papers, Richard Bavier of OMB has questioned the wisdom of the NRC Panel’s treatment of medical needs for measuring poverty.

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Working Paper

Medical Out-Of-Pocket Spending in Poverty Thresholds

October 2000

Two options for including amounts for MOOP in poverty thresholds like those proposed by the National Research Council are presented.

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Working Paper

Estimates of the Population of Counties: 1990 to 1999

August 30, 2000

These data are estimates of the resident population of the counties in the United States for July 1 of each year from 1990 to 1999.

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Working Paper

The "Family/Couple/Household" Unit of Analysis in Poverty Measurement

August 22, 2000

The unit of analysis used in poverty measurement continues to receive critical scrutiny.

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Working Paper

Valuing Housing Subsidies: A Revised Method for Quantifying Benefits

August 16, 2000

This paper addresses the issue of valuing one such non-cash benefit, housing subsidies.

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Working Paper

Living Conditions in Single Parent Households

August 2000

The paper finds an apparent advantage of work over welfare for most households, but not for single parent households.

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Working Paper

March CPS and the SIPP Income Estimates Assessment, 1990 - 1996

June 16, 2000

This investigation attempts to develop administrative benchmarks of income compatible with the March CPS and the SIPP.

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Working Paper

An Assessment of SIPP Benefit Data Using Longitudinal Admin. Records

June 2000

Using Social Security Administration administrative records matched to SIPP panels, we assess discrepancies in reports of benefit receipt and benefit amounts.

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Working Paper

Food Stamp Receipt

June 2000

This paper compares individuals who received Food Stamps over the period 1996 – 1999 with those who left the Food Stamps rolls.

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Working Paper

Accurate Calculation and Maximization of Log-Likelihood

May 02, 2000

For the mixed-effect logistic regression model with a single vector of random effects per stratim, log-likelihood can be effectively and accurately calculated.

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Working Paper

Models for Simulation and Comparison of SAIPE Analyses

May 02, 2000

We first present a simplified ideal model which can be used to simulate underlying data for the small-area estimation currently used in the SAIPE project.

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Working Paper

Measures of Help Available to Households in Need

May 2000

This paper explores the interrelationships between expectations of support from social networks and the well being of households.

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Working Paper

Who are the Poor Elderly? Report Using Alternative Poverty Measures

February 2000

This paper reviews the recent literature on poverty measurement among the elderly by bringing together issues that bear upon measures of resources and needs.

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Working Paper

Evaluating Poverty with a Different Measure

January 08, 2000

This paper describes and compares the poverty population under several different experimental measures of poverty.

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Working Paper

ACS Income: Data Collection, Processing, Comparisons to 1990 Census

2000

This report compares data collection and processing for the American Community Survey to data collection and processing for the 1990 Census.

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Working Paper

Alternate Scaling Parameter Functions in a Hierarchical Bayes Model

2000

The U.S. Census Bureau SAIPE currently uses an empirical Bayes estimation method to produce biennial intercensal estimates of the proverty rates.

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Working Paper

Home Equity, Wealth, and Financial Assets of U.S. Households in 1995

2000

This report describes patterns of homeownership, home equity, and other assets and debts of U.S. households in 1995.

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