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Improving Information for Social Policy Decisions -- The Uses of Microsimulation Modeling Volume II, Technical Papers (1991) / Chapter Skim
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Pages 17-20

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... Hence, there is a premium on data sets that are updated frequently and processed in an expeditious manner. These data requirements for modeling the major income support programs on a cross-sectional basis do not take into account links to other kinds of programs such as job training or child support.
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From page 18...
... The SIPP is funded entirely by the Census Bureau, with oversight by a federal interagency committee chaired by the Office of Management and BudgeL The primary purpose of the survey is to obtain information about the economic and social well-being of the population for use in policy analysis 2Additional addresses are canvassed each month but are dropped fran the eligible total because the housing unit at the address is vacant or has been demolished, converted to nonresidential use, and so on. 3Researchers outside the Census Bureau have matched monthly CPS files, using exact-match techniques based on scrambled identifiers, and some of these matches were performed in order to estimate parameters for microsimulation models.
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From page 19...
... The SIPP does try to keep track of sample people aged 15 and older who move into such institutions as prisons and nursing homes and to bring them back into the survey if they return to a noninstitutional residence. The Census Bureau currently uses an integrated sample design for its major household surveys, including the CPS and SIPP and also the National Crime Survey and American Housing Survey.
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From page 20...
... For the CPS, in addition to the sample redesign based on the census, the Census Bureau plans to introduce an improved labor force questionnaire (which will have been tested on a supplemental sample of 15,000 households in 1992-1993~. The Census Bureau also hopes to convert all CPS data collection to computer-assisted telephone and personal interviewing (CATI/CAPI)
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Key Terms

  • census bureau
  • march cps
  • labor force
  • support programs
  • income support

  • microsimulation models
  • simulation models
  • employment status
  • march income
  • decennial census

  • microsimulation model
  • benefit level
  • sipp sample
  • cps data
  • child support

  • monthly basis
  • reference period
  • program participation
  • simulation model
  • transition probabilities

  • monthly data
  • sipp panel
  • household surveys
  • panel design


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