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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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... Other operations, however, could possibly be performed by the Census Bureau at less overall cost to the federal government because the operation would not be duplicated by the various models and with higher quality because, for example, the Census Bureau would have access to detailed administrative data for use in quality enhancement. This section briefly summarizes the current roles of the Census Bureau and the contractors for the major microsimulation models of income support programs MATH, TRIMS, and HITSM-in enhancing data quality in the CPS.
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... · As part of rumung several of die master routines, use imputation procedures to assign values for missing data items in the CPS -- for example, impute child care expenses for use by the FEDTAX, AFDC, and FSTAMP modules based on equations estimated from He Conswner Expenditure Survey data for 1981-1985. ~ As the last step, calibrate the simulations of program participants to accord win known control totals from administrative data.
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... · Household composition reference period Neither the Census Bureau nor He models deal with the problem that the household composition data in the March CPS pertain to the time of the interview, while the employment and income reference period is the preceding calendar year. · Households and families versus program fling units The models all contain extensive code to construct tax and transfer program filing units from the information on household and family relationships obtained in the CPS.
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Key Terms

  • census bureau
  • master routine
  • march cps
  • support programs
  • food stamp

  • income support
  • microsimulation models
  • master routines
  • imputation procedures
  • simulation models

  • urban institute
  • food stamps
  • missing data
  • asset holdings
  • household composition

  • item nonresponse
  • employment status
  • decennial census
  • microsimulation model
  • care expenses

  • control totals
  • filing units
  • administrative data
  • cps data
  • baseline file

  • income data
  • child care
  • income tax
  • data quality
  • transfer program


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