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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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... Ire the CPS, nonresponse rates for some items are quite high. Indeed, as much as 20 percent of the total income in the March CPS is imputed by the Census Bureau (including income imputed due to person nonresponse as well as individual item nonresponse)
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... (1986) were able to use the CPS-IRS exact-match file, which is not publicly available, when they were in residence at the Census Bureau and sworn in as special census employees under the fellowship program sponsored by the National Science Foundation and the American Statistical Association.
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From page 31...
... In the longitudinal panel files, when possible, the Census Bureau replaces cross-sectionally imputed values with interpolated values from surrounding waves and performs other editing of the data on the basis of the entire array of information available for each case. There have been a few studies of the impact of the SIPP imputation procedures from the viewpoint of modeling income support programs.
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... 8.5 8.7 8.0 8.5 16.5 Social security 13.0 12.5 12.7 13.2 19.3 Aid to Families with Dependent Children 8.9 8.1 8.5 8.5 14.4 Unemployment compensation 15.0 15.6 14.9 16.0 18.6 Company or union pension 17.0 16.1 16.2 16.5 21.0 Food stamp allotment 7.1 5.9 6.3 6.6 11.1 Veterans' compensation or pension 13.1 13.4 13.2 16.2 18.8 NOTE: Noninterviews or complete failure to obtain cooperation from any household member has not been considered in this examination of nonresponse rates. SOURCE: Jabine, King, and Petroni (1990:Table 5.9)
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  • census bureau
  • march cps
  • labor force
  • statistical match
  • support programs

  • food stamp
  • income support
  • imputation procedures
  • nonresponse rates
  • statistical association

  • food stamps
  • asset holdings
  • modeling income
  • item nonresponse
  • march income

  • stamp program
  • person nonresponse
  • monthly income
  • security administration
  • sipp panel

  • population undercoverage
  • unemployment compensation


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