By National Research Council, Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, Committee on National Statistics, Panel on the Census Bureau's Reengineered Survey of Income and Program Participation, John Karl Scholz, Constance F. Citro
Starting in 2006, the Census Bureau launched into a application to reengineer the Survey of source of revenue and application Participation (SIPP) to minimize its expenses and increase info caliber and timeliness. The Bureau additionally asked the nationwide Academies to contemplate the benefits and downsides of innovations for linking administrative documents and survey facts, taking account of the accessibility of correct administrative files, the operational feasibility of linking, the standard and usability of the associated info, and the power to supply entry to the associated facts whereas preserving the confidentiality of person respondents. In reaction, this quantity first examines the historical past of SIPP and stories the survey's function, price, strengths, and weaknesses. The ebook examines replacement makes use of of administrative documents in a reengineered SIPP and, ultimately, considers concepts in SIPP layout and knowledge assortment, together with the proposed use of annual interviews with an occasion background calendar.
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24 REENGINEERING THE SURVEY to simulate eligibility for assistance programs, such as food stamps and Aid to Families with Dependent Children. Eligibility determination is essential to understand trends in program take-up rates—for example, an increase in the number of program participants could be due to an expansion of eligibility that did not alter the take-up rate, or to an increase in the take-up rate among already-eligible participants who decided to apply for benefits, or to both factors.
A. A. A. A. A. A. A. = Not applicable. Original and reduced sample sizes are rounded to the nearest hundred households. Original sample sizes are the number of households eligible to be interviewed at the start of Wave 1. Reduced sample sizes are reductions in original sample sizes due to budget cuts (the wave in which the cut took effect is indicated in parentheses). Reduced sample sizes do not reflect reduction in sample sizes due to attrition; nor do they reflect growth (or decline) in sample sizes due to changes in household composition because original sample people moved out of or back into an original sample household.
SIPP advocates sent letters to Congress arguing that SIPP was crucial to policy research and should be continued and that the Bush administration’s recommended cuts in SIPP should not be implemented. One public letter, signed by over 400 researchers, including two Nobel laureates, was sent to Congress on March 1, 2006. The letters were accompanied by effective lobbying of Congress, especially of staff and members on the appropriations committees in the House and Senate that control the Census Bureau’s budget.