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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.
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Working Paper
Medicaid Underreporting in the CPS: Results from a Record Check Study
In 2006 an inter-agency team of researchers was assembled to address the Medicaid undercount issue in the Current Population Survey (CPS).
Working Paper
Use of ACS Data to Produce SAIPE Model-Based Estimates of Poverty
The U.S. Census Bureau's SAIPE program has produced median household income estimates and poverty by age group estimates for U.S. states…
Working Paper
Factors that Effected Job-holding Among Female AFDC/TANF Recipients
This study employs the Survey of Income and Participation (SIPP) to assess the extent to which AFDC/TANF recipients worked in 1996.
Working Paper
The Impact of ASEC Unrestricted Income Values on Distribution Measures
This report examines two restrictions that limit the reporting of high-income values on the ASEC: a data collection limit and a processing limit.
Working Paper
The Impact of ASEC Unrestricted Income Values on Distribution Measures
This report examines two restrictions that limit the reporting of high-income values on the ASEC: a data collection limit and a processing limit.
Working Paper
Methodology for Testing for a Rise in Child Poverty Rate: 2003 to 2004
The US Census Bureau’s Small Area Estimates Branch annually provides the ACF in the HHS with model-based estimates of the number of children in poverty.
Working Paper
Median Income and Earnings Estimates: Comparison of ACS and CPS
Comparison of national estimates of income between the 2004 and 2005 ACS and the 2005 and 2006 CPS ASEC.
Working Paper
Evaluation Report Covering Receipt of Food Stamps
Results of proposed changes to the food stamps content as tested in the 2006 American Community Survey Content Test.
Working Paper
Household Income Inequality Measures Based on the ACS Data: 2000-2005
Report focuses on several common measures of inequality using household income data from the American Community Survey (ACS) for the years 2000 through 2005.
Working Paper
State-Level Mean Household Income and Selected Income Inequality, 2006
This table presents data on state-level mean household income and selected income inequality measures for 2006.
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