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Beginning in 2006, the Census Bureau embarked on a program to reengineer SIPP to reduce its costs and improve data quality and timeliness to the extent possible by such means as making greater use of administrative records, moving to annual interviews in which event history calendars would be used to ascertain monthly information, and modernizing the SIPP data collection and processing systems. The bureau also requested the Committee on National Statistics of the National Academies to establish a study panel to address specific aspects of the reengineering program. The panel was asked to consider the advantages and disadvantages of strategies for linking administrative records and survey data, taking account of the accessibility of relevant administrative records, the operational feasibility of linking, the quality and usefulness of the linked data, and the ability to provide access to the linked data while protecting the confidentiality of Event history calendars are customized calendars that show the reference period, such as a year, and contain timelines for different domains, such as residence history, household composition history, work history, and other areas, that might aid a respondent's memory.
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and, finally, considered innovations in SIPP design and data collection, including the proposed use of annual interviews with an event history calendar (Chapter 4)
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to provide policy-relevant information on the shortrun dynamics of economic well-being for families and households, the Census Bureau must continue to use survey interviews as the primary data collection vehicle. Administrative records from federal and state agencies cannot replace SIPP, primarily because they do not provide information on people who are eligible for -- but do not participate in -- government assistance programs and, more generally, because they do not provide all of the detail that is needed for SIPP to serve its primary goal.
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Unemploy ment insurance benefit records should be a high priority for the Census Bureau to acquire on both of these counts, and the bureau should investigate whether it is possible to acquire these records from the National Directory of New Hires, which would eliminate the need to negotiate with individual states. Indirect Uses of Records Conclusion 3-4: Indirect uses of administrative records are those uses, such as evaluation of data quality and improvement of imputation models for missing data, in which the administrative data are never recorded on survey records.
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Direct Uses of Records Conclusion 3-5: Direct uses of administrative records in a reengineered Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP) , which include substituting administrative values for missing survey responses, adjusting survey responses for net underreporting, using administrative values instead of asking survey questions, and appending additional administrative data, potentially offer significant improvements in the quality of SIPP data on income and program participation.
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For SIPP data that cannot be publicly released, the Census Bureau should give high priority to developing a secure remote access system that does not require visiting a Research Data Center to use the information. The bureau should also deposit SIPP files of linked survey and administrative records data (with identifiers removed)
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. The lack of evidence about the ability of an EHC to collect monthly data places considerable pressure on the Census Bureau, not only to design an effective pretesting program for the EHC methodology, but also to make its survey reengineering plans for SIPP sufficiently flexible so that it can modify its plans if the pretesting reveals unanticipated, negative evidence on the likely success of the proposed methodology in providing high-quality monthly information.
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that are important to evaluate in terms of their effects on respondent burden, survey costs, data quality, and operational complexity include the length and frequency of interviews, the length of panels, and whether successive panels overlap. With regard to interviews, there is no evidence that a 12-month event history calendar strikes the optimal balance between respondent burden, costs, and data quality in comparison to the traditional SIPP design of 4-month interviews.
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; assist in benchmarking survey responses against external, reliable sources; and advise the bureau on ways to improve imputation and editing procedures. The group would provide a sounding board for the Census Bureau's plans to develop appropriate survey content in a reengineered SIPP and advise the bureau on appropriate modifications to survey content as policy developments occur, such as health care and immigration reform.
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does not have a government client outside the Census Bureau or a federally mandated set of reports that are based on the survey. Not having an external client, such as the Bureau of Labor Statistics (which has a collaborative and financial stake in the monthly Current Population Survey)
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