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Working Paper

Alternative School Lunch Valuation in the 2022 Supplemental Poverty Measure

September 12, 2023

This paper describes the updated method for calculating and assigning school lunch values in the 2022 SPM.

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Working Paper

Effects of 2020 Census-Based Population Controls on 2020 Estimates

August 2022

This paper demonstrates the effect of using the 2020 Census-based population controls on the 2020 data by presenting key estimates using both the 2010 and 2020

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Working Paper

Examining the Impact of Medical Expenses on Supplemental Poverty Rates

June 2022

The paper examines the impact of deducting out-of-pocket medical expenses on Supplemental Poverty rates.

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Working Paper

The Impact of Alternative Inflation Adjustments on CPS ASEC Income Statistics

April 2022

This paper documents the implications of using chain type price indices to inflation adjust estimates of historical income and earnings statistics.

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Working Paper

Using WIC Administrative Data to Evaluate the SPM

March 2022

This paper links state administrative data on the WIC program to the CPS ASEC to assess the impact of WIC misreporting on the Supplemental Poverty Measure.

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Working Paper

Capping Nutritional Assistance in the Supplemental Poverty Measure

October 01, 2020

This paper develops a methodology and investigates the potential impact of capping nutritional assistance benefits in the estimation of the SPM.

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Working Paper

Impact of Using State Average WIC Values in the SPM

October 01, 2020

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.

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Working Paper

Potential Improvements to the SPM for 2021: Resources

June 22, 2020

This presentation gives an overview of potential changes to SPM resources under consideration for 2021.

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Working Paper

Changing the Housing Share of Poverty Thresholds for the SPM

April 2018

This paper looks at the impact of allowing the housing share of the thresholds to vary by housing size and the impact of using alternative equivalence scales.

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Working Paper

Eliminating the Public Housing Adjustment

July 26, 2017

Working paper discussing the elimination of the public housing adjustment when estimating the value of housing subsidies for the Supplemental Poverty Measure.

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Working Paper

Estimating the Value of Federal Housing Assistance for the SPM

November 2015

Working paper evaluating the methods used to estimate the value of federal housing assistance for the Supplemental Poverty Measure.

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Working Paper

Estimating the value of WIC benefits for the SPM

July 2013

This paper proposes a measurement change for the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children (WIC).

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Working Paper

Geographic Adjustments of Supplemental Poverty Measure Thresholds

July 2011

The ITWG suggested that the poverty thresholds be adjusted for price differences across geographic areas.

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Working Paper

Evaluating the New Mortgage Questions in the CPS's 2010 ASEC

2011

To evaluate the quality of new 2010 ASEC mortgage questions, this paper compares similar data collected in ACS and AHS by a number of selected characteristics.

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Working Paper

Estimating the Value of Federal Housing Assistance

December 2010

This paper will describe the methodologies currently used by the Census Bureau to estimate the value of housing assistance.

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Working Paper

Improving the Measurement of Family Resources

January 2010

This paper will describe the methodologies currently used by the Census Bureau to estimate the value of near-money nonmedical in-kind benefits.

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Working Paper

Owner-Occupied Shelter in Experimental Poverty Measures

November 15, 2001

In this paper we describe and present four approaches to include the “cost” of shelter in a poverty measure through the thresholds.

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Working Paper

Valuing Housing Subsidies in a New Measure of Poverty

June 2001

This paper will describe a new method for valuing housing subsidies and compare it to several other methods.

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Working Paper

Owner-Occupied Housing: An Input for Experimental Poverty Thresholds

January 04, 2001

This papers describes 2 approaches for estimating the costs of consumption flows of housing services which account for the occupancy of owner occupied housing.

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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

Remarks on Geographic Variation in Housing Prices and Poverty

August 10, 1998

I will first discuss some issues and trade-offs in the measurement of housing prices that are relevant to the proposed changes in poverty measures.

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Working Paper

Poverty Measurement Research

January 1998

In this paper we implement the Panel's basic procedure, with slight modifications, and describe further work needed to implement remaining recommendations.

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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

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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