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Alternative Poverty Measures Using the Survey of Income and Program Participation and the American Community Survey
Alternative Poverty Measures Using the Survey of Income and Program Participation and the American Community Survey
Working Paper
Exploring a Method to Produce County-Level Supplemental Poverty Measure Estimates in the American Community Survey
The goal of this paper is to release a methodology to produce county-level Supplemental Poverty Measure (SPM) estimates from the 1-year ACS.
Working Paper
Challenges in Producing the 2021 ACS SPM
This paper provides a methodology for producing the Supplemental Poverty Measure in the American Community Survey.
Working Paper
The SPM in the Survey of Income and Program Participation
This paper proposes a methodology for estimating the SPM in the 2014 Survey of Income and Program Participation Panel and subsequent panels.
Working Paper
Impact of Using State Average WIC Values in the SPM
Using data from the 2018 CPS ASEC, this paper analyzes the impact of using state-varying WIC values instead of national WIC values to estimate SPM rates.
Working Paper
The Supplemental Poverty Measure using the American Community Survey
This working paper develops a research series implementing the SPM in the ACS.
Working Paper
Using the ACS to Implement a SPM
The presentation explores implementing the SPM in the ACS.
Working Paper
Using the ACS to Implement a Supplemental Poverty Measure (SPM)
The purpose of this paper is to continue to develop a proposal for how data
limitations might be overcome to produce SPM estimates using ACS data.
Working Paper
Survey of Income and Program Participation: 2009
This paper has described in some detail the process of moving the measurement of poverty in the CPS to measuring poverty in the SIPP.
Working Paper
An Examination of Retirement Income for the 65+ Population
Every several years the SIPP is supplemented by a topical module which measures the retirement income and retirement plan coverage of the population.
Working Paper
Using the ACS to Implement a Supplemental Poverty Measure (SPM)
For solving missing data issues, this paper examines how the data in the CPS ASEC might be used to inform ACS imputations.
Working Paper
Using the ACS to Implement a NAS-Style Poverty Measure
We compare the results of several different approaches to estimating the value of Food Stamp benefits and assigning housing assistance status
Working Paper
Alternative Poverty Measures in the SIPP: 1996
This paper compares alternative poverty measures based on the SIPP and the CPS and makes recommendations for future design implementation.
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