The Future of the Survey of Income and Program Participation / / Constance F. Citro and Graham Kalton, editors ; Panel to Evaluate the Survey of Income and Program Participation, Committee on National Statistics, Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, National Research Council

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910817966203321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Washington, D.C., : National Academy Press, 1993
• ISBN: 0-309-58502-3; 0-585-14339-0
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (298 p.)
• Altri autori (Persone): CitroConstance F <1942-> (Constance Forbes); KaltonGraham
• Disciplina: 339.220723
• Soggetti: Income - United States - Statistical services - Evaluation; Transfer payments - United States - Statistical services - Evaluation; Household surveys - United States - Methodology - Evaluation; Social surveys - United States - Methodology - Evaluation
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: "Project ... was supported by funds from the Bureau of the Census, U.S. Department of Commerce"--T.p. verso.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 245-263) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: ""The Future of the SURVEY OF INCOME AND PROGRAM PARTICIPATION""; ""Copyright""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Contents""; ""Summary""; ""GOALS""; ""SURVEY DESIGN""; ""DATA COLLECTION AND PROCESSING""; ""DATA PRODUCTS AND THEIR USE""; ""METHODOLOGICAL RESEARCH AND EVALUATION""; ""MANAGEMENT AND OVERSIGHT""; ""RECOMMENDATIONS""; ""Goals for SIPP""; ""Achieving SIPP's Goals""; ""Survey Design""; ""Data Collection and Processing""; ""Data Products and Their Use""; ""Methodological Research and Evaluation""; ""Management and Oversight""; ""1 Introduction ""; ""SIPP IN BRIEF""; ""SIPP TO""; ""Achievements""""Part-Year Poverty and Program Participation""; ""Multiple Program Participation""; ""Effect of Assets on Program Eligibility and Poverty""; ""Health Insurance Coverage""; ""Behavioral Dynamics""; ""Problems""; ""LOOKING TO THE FUTURE""; ""Roles for SIPP""; ""The Panel's Report""; ""2 Goals for SIPP ""; ""THE DEVELOPMENT ; OF SIPP AND ITS GOALS""; ""The Income Survey Development Program""; ""Early SIPP Goals""; ""Assessments of Early Goals""; ""VIEWS ABOUT SIPP'S GOALS""; ""The CNSTAT Report""; ""Conference on the Future of SIPP""; ""The Role of SIPP in Improving Income Data""; ""An Outside Perspective""""Census Bureau Perspective""; ""RECOMMENDATION""; ""3 Achieving SIPP's Goals ""; ""IMPROVING DATA ON INCOME AND OTHER ECONOMIC RESOURCES""; ""Income and Related Measures""; ""Measures Relevant to Programs""; ""Measures of Taxes and After-Tax Income""; ""Valuation of In-Kind Benefits""; ""Static and Dynamic Measures Related to Family Characteristics""; ""New Forms of Income and Other Economic Resources""; ""Recommendation""; ""Assets and Asset Income""; ""Other Resources""; ""IMPROVING DATA ON PROGRAM ELIGIBILITY AND PARTICIPATION""; ""Improved Eligibility Measures""; ""Spell Information""""Emerging Programs and Program Changes""; ""Recommendation""; ""TOPICAL MODULES""; ""SIPP AND THE MARCH CPS""; ""SIPP AND ADMINISTRATIVE RECORDS""; ""4 Survey Design ""; ""MAJOR DESIGN ELEMENTS AND ALTERNATIVES""; ""Current SIPP Design""; ""User Views""; ""Selected Design Alternatives""; ""Attrition""; ""Time-in-Sample Effects""; ""Censoring""; ""Recall Error and Seam Effects""; ""Overlapping Panels""; ""Sample Size""; ""Rotation Groups""; ""Recommendations""; ""OVERSAMPLING IN SIPP""; ""Using the 1990 Census for Oversampling in SIPP""; ""Screening as Another Method of Oversampling""""Increasing Sample Size by Extending Panel Length""; ""Multiple-Frame Samples""; ""FOLLOWING RULES""; ""5 Data Collection and Processing ""; ""CURRENT OPERATIONS""; ""Interviewing""; ""Regional Office Operations""; ""Home Office Operations""; ""COMPUTER-ASSISTED INTERVIEWING""; ""Potential Improvements for SIPP""; ""Costs""; ""A CAPI System for SIPP""; ""Needed Features""; ""Current Census Bureau Software""; ""DATABASE MANAGEMENT""; ""Needed Database Management Capabilities for SIPP""; ""Integration of CAPI and Database Management""; ""INVESTING IN THE DATA PROCESSING STAFF""