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Income & Poverty Working Papers
Income & Poverty 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.
View the list of working paper topics.
View the list of working papers by year.
Working Paper
New Methods for Simulating CPS Taxes
This paper describes a new model to produce tax estimates for the CPS.
Working Paper
Income Poverty and Material Hardship: How Strong Is the Association?
Many have argued that “poverty” should represent more than just a shortfall of income in a given time period, as it is most often currently measured.
Working Paper
Alternative Measures of Household Income: BEA Personal, CPS, Beyond
This paper considers the differences between measures of personal income and money income.
Working Paper
Income Data Quality Issues in the ASC to the CPS
This paper focuses on the quality of the CPS ASEC as a data source.
Working Paper
AAPOR Roundtable: Improving Income Measurement
The objectives of the project are to improve response rates in SIPP, to reduce burden, and to improve data quality.
Working Paper
Longitudinal Attrition in SIPP and Survey of Program Dynamics (SPD)
Longitudinal surveys like the SIPP and the SPD suffer from attrition that grows as the survey process is extended out in time.
Working Paper
Report 5: Comparing Economic Characteristics With Census 2000
Fifth in a series of reports about implementing the ACS: comparing economic characteristics between ACS and Census 2000.
Working Paper
Methodology for Variance of Change Estimates For State-Level 1999-2000
The HHS asked the U.S. Census Bureau’s Small Area Estimates Branch to provide them with model-based estimates of child poverty on an annual basis.
Working Paper
Use of the Views of the Public to Set Income Poverty Thresholds
This article will discuss the role that the systematically measured judgments of the public at large might play in the measurement of poverty.
Working Paper
An Empirical Study on Using ACS Supplementary Survey Data
The US Census Bureau's SAIPE Program produces poverty estimates for various age groups for states, counties, and school districts.
Working Paper
Errors-In-Variables County Poverty and Income Models
At present, the SAIPE program at the US Census Bureau estimates state, county, and school district poverty and state and county median household income.
Working Paper
Investigating the use of IRS Tax Data in the SAIPE
The US Census Bureau created the SAIPE program to provide more current estimates of selected income and poverty statistics than the recent decennial census.
Working Paper
School District Population Estimates Methodology Research
The Population Division of the US Census Bureau produces annual estimates of the total and school age population in school districts.
Working Paper
Small Area Estimation of Health Insurance Coverage
This paper presents results from modeling the CPS ASEC and SIPP jointly for small area estimates of health insurance coverage.
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