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The 2014 Redesign of the Survey of Income and Program Participation An Assessment (2018) / Chapter Skim
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1 Introduction
Pages 11-16

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... SIPP is a national, longitudinal survey of households that collects monthly data on labor force participation, income by source, social program participation and the components of eligibility, health insurance coverage, ­ the demographic characteristics of household members, and a variety of other items -- generally over a period of 2 to 4 years. SIPP's monthly data on these interrelated characteristics, which were collected via a core questionnaire administered at 4-month intervals, distinguish it from all other U.S.
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From page 12...
... Asked to address particular aspects of this effort, the National Research Council issued a report titled Reengineering the Survey of Income and Program Participation (National Research Council, 2009)
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From page 13...
... The committee will also evaluate the depth and breadth of the 2014 SIPP content; evaluate the impact of the new SIPP data collection instrument on respondent burden; and consider content changes for subsequent SIPP survey panels that could improve the utility of the data. The committee will review the results of the analyses, deliberate, and prepare a report at the conclusion of its study with findings and recommendations for potential modifications that could improve SIPP data quality and usefulness under the new design.
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From page 14...
... The chapter includes a discussion of selected agency applications of SIPP data, which highlight the diversity of SIPP uses, including a number of its most sophisticated applications. Chapter 4 covers the new SIPP questionnaire -- specifically, the instrumentation and flow and the handling of data collected in the prior wave, which is used with the respondent's permission to remind the respondent of program participation reported previously.
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From page 15...
... To conduct this work, panel members and staff were certified as census agents and accessed internal SIPP files within a secure census facility. In March 2017, the Census Bureau released SIPP public-use data files for wave 1.
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