The 2014 Redesign of the Survey of Income and Program Participation An Assessment (2018) / Chapter Skim
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Federal agencies and academic researchers use SIPP data to study critical social issues, such as poverty, disability, health insurance coverage, child welfare, resources for retirement, and more. The Census Bureau has reengineered SIPP -- fielding the initial redesigned survey in 2014.1 Two major changes made in the reengineering were that sampled households are contacted only once per year rather than three times and that the topical modules have been eliminated.
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QUALITY OF KEY ESTIMATES The primary charge to the panel was to analyze data collected under the new and old SIPP designs to determine the extent to which the new design improves upon, maintains, or underperforms the old design in terms of the quality of key estimates. The study panel presents 15 specific findings based on its independent data analyses.
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RECOMMENDATION 7-4: The Census Bureau should conduct research to identify why the redesigned Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP) has difficulty relative to the earlier SIPP panels in accurately capturing income from households at the bottom of the income distribution.
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The panel delineated major content changes in the areas of income and program participation, expenses, and other outcomes of interest and related economic activities, and drew the following two conclusions and a recommendation: 3 The short month discontinuity is related to how the Census Bureau assigns earnings to months for persons with pay periods that vary by the number of days in the month.
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Additionally, the lack of periodic TMs limits the ability to field new questions addressing timely policy issues. RECOMMENDATION 6-1: The Census Bureau should reevaluate whether critical content from the Social Security Supplement can be effectively added to the Survey of Income and Program Participation questionnaire.
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The effects of various enhancements/modifications should be quantified and provided to data users. RECOMMENDATION 5-2: The Census Bureau should continue to investigate effective use of administrative records, such as Internal Revenue Service data mentioned in this report, to enhance the quality of data collected in the Survey of Income and Program Participation.
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of this report, the panel broadens its look at SIPP, adding comments and recommendations in three different areas: addressing how the strengths and weakness of SIPP (as identified by the 2009 review of SIPP by the National Academies) have changed based on the redesign; facilitating the use of SIPP data; and supporting respondents and field representatives.
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Until further work is done to improve understanding of these issues, the Census Bureau should alert data users that estimates of transitions derived from the 2014 SIPP panel might not compare with estimates from earlier panels. RECOMMENDATION 9-7: The Census Bureau should develop and implement a systematic plan to measure objective respondent burden, perceived burden, and their components, following best practices as found in current literature.
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SUMMARY 9 m odify its current training for field representatives, putting more emphasis on the effective use of the event history calendar and on understanding the complexity of social programs, income sources, and other elements that are the focus of the Survey of Income and Program Participation.
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