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The following HTML text is provided to enhance online readability. Many aspects of typography translate only awkwardly to HTML. Please use the page image as the authoritative form to ensure accuracy. 65 percent of reported interest income (compared with 79% in the March CPS, which uses an improved imputation procedure). The March CPS estimate of interest income using the old imputation procedure was only 62 percent of the IRS estimate. Both SIPP and the March CPS fall much farther short of dividend and interest income aggregates when the comparison is made to the National Income and Product Accounts (NIPA); however, the NIPA estimates require extensive adjustments, which may not be complete, for comparability with household survey estimates (see Jabine, King, and Petroni, 1990: Table 10.3) Nonresponse rates to the questions on value of asset holdings in the topical modules are also very high, although lower than were experienced in the ISDP: 35-40 percent for value of own business, market value of stocks and mutual fund shares, and debt on these assets. After imputation, SIPP obtains higher estimates of equity in homes and motor vehicles in comparison with estimates of the Federal Reserve Board because of somewhat higher estimates of gross value and considerably lower estimates of debt in SIPP, but it obtains considerably lower estimates of equity in noncorporate business, value of financial assets, and consumer debt (see Eargle, 1990: Table D-2).7 Ability to Support Other EstimatesShorter or Longer Term MeasuresThe March CPS provides annual measures of income and poverty. Almost no information is available with which to construct longer term measures. (Because of the rotation group design, one-half of the sample for one year's March supplement is in the sample for the next year's March supplement; hence, it could be possible to construct measures of poverty status over 2 years for this subsample.) Only very limited information is available with which to construct shorter term measures: information is obtained about months of receipt of food stamps and AFDC and about weeks worked, weeks unemployed, and weeks out of the labor force in the prior year. SIPP, because of its monthly (or 4-month) income information, can be used to construct poverty measures for months, quarters, or other periods
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