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Appendix D: Summaries of National-Level Survey Data Sets Relevant to Welfare Monitoring and Evaluation
Appendix D: Summaries of National-Level Survey Data Sets Relevant to Welfare Monitoring and Evaluation
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NOTE: Descriptions of the census long form, the American Community Survey, the March Current Population Survey, and the Survey of Income and Program Participation in this appendix are based on National Research Council (2000)
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It will include content similar to that of the decennial census long-form sample, including questions on income and its sources and on participation in public assistance programs, such as cash assistance and noncash assistance such as food stamps, and rental subsidies. The income and assistance receipt questions will refer to the 12 months preceding the interview month.
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Because of subsampling at the final stage of follow-up, the weighted response rate in the four initial ACS test sites was over 95 percent. Item nonresponse rates may be lower in the ACS than in the 1990 census, at least for some items, based on preliminary results from the 1996 ACS test sites (Salvo and Lobo, 1997: Tersine, 1998~.
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For the annual March income supplement, the CPS asks household respondents about income received during the previous calendar year, including income received from public cash assistance programs. The questionnaire also asks about noncash benefit receipt, including Medicaid coverage for household members, food stamps receipt and amount of benefits, energy assistance benefit receipt and amount, free and reduced priced school lunch program benefits for children in the household, and whether the household lives in public housing or receives a housing subsidy.
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This sample design means that income and program participation estimates in large states are generally more precise than those in smaller states. The largest states, however, have larger relative errors due to sampling variability than would be expected if the CPS sample were allocated to the states in proportion to their population; the reverse holds true for smaller states.3 In fall 1999 the Census Bureau received an appropriation to adjust the March CPS sample size and design so that reliable annual estimates at the state level could be provided of the numbers of low-income children lacking health insurance coverage by family income, age, and race or ethnicity.
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Adult members of originally sampled households in each panel were followed and interviewed every 4 months for 32 months, although some panels had fewer than eight interview waves because of budget restrictions, and the 1992 and 1993 panels had ten waves and nine waves, respectively. The 1996 panel, begun in April, followed original sample adults every 4 months for 4 years.
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Response rates to the first wave of a SIPP panel are somewhat lower than CPS response rates: about 5-8 percent of eligible households in the 1983-1991 SIPP panels did not respond to the first interview wave and were dropped from the sample. The first wave nonresponse rate for households in the 1992 and 1993 panels was 9 percent.
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are similar for the CPS and SIPP. SIPP has lower item nonresponse rates than the March CPS: overall, only 11 percent of total regular money income obtained for calendar year 1984 from the first four waves of the 1984 SIPP panel was imputed, compared with 20 percent in the March 1985 CPS.
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The cumulative attrition rate is high: the beginning 1992 and 1993 SIPP panels had already lost 27 percent of the original SIPP panels, and through the 1999 SPD, the rate is approaching 50 percent. The Census Bureau is planning several steps to address the attrition problem, including interviewing a targeted sample of SIPP and SPD Bridge survey nonrespondents and offering cash incentives to these nonrespondents for completing a survey.
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Because of the focus on low-income families, the sample includes families without telephones and uses a dual-frame design consisting of a random-digit-dialing component for telephone households and an area sample for households without telephones. NSAF data collection is conducted primarily by telephone survey using CATI.
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Questions are asked regarding many benefit programs, including AFDC, SSI, food stamps, low income health services, and housing subsidies. The sample for PSID has grown from 4,800 families in 1968 to 6,434 families in 1999, and is projected to grow to almost 7,400 in 2005.
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The NLSY79 is a voluntary longitudinal survey of men and women representative of all Americans born in the late 1950s and early 1960s. NLSY79 gathers data in an event history format, collecting dates for the beginning and ending of important life events, such as employment, marital status, and participation in government assistance programs, including AFDC, food stamps, and cash assistance.
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Paper prepared for the American Community Survey Symposium. Bureau of the Census, U.S.
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1998 Item Nonresponse: 1996 American Community Survey. Paper prepared for the American Community Survey Symposium.
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