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30 8 Data Issues, Other Topics, and Future Research DATA ISSUES Official poverty statistics, which date back to 1959, are calculatedwith data from the Current Population Survey (CPS) , a monthlysurvey of about 60,000 households conducted by the U.S.
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DATA ISSUES, OTHER TOPICS, AND FUTURE RESEARCH 31 about 3 years (depending on the panel)
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32 EXPERIMENTAL POVERTY MEASURES Several workshop participants echoed these concerns with using SIPP data, with the main issues being the timeliness of the release of data and the loss of sample over the course of the panel. Wendell Primus (Joint Economic Committee)
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DATA ISSUES, OTHER TOPICS, AND FUTURE RESEARCH 33 Some participants said that research was needed on the possibility of incorporating wealth into a poverty measure, but that it should not necessarily be a top priority in the research agenda. On the topic of unit of analysis, the issue is the most appropriate unit for which to measure poverty -- the family, the household, or some other entity.
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34 EXPERIMENTAL POVERTY MEASURES should be made clear to the public that any poverty measure needs to be periodically evaluated, and perhaps improved, to incorporate new information or improved methods. Timothy Smeeding and Rebecca Blank also advocated continuing the current poverty measure time series to have some level of continuity in poverty statistics.
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