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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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... , which was Constance F Citro is a staff officer at the National Research Council; she served as study director of the Parcel to Evaluate Microsimulation Models for Social Welfare Programs.
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... Other agencies, including the Congressional Budget Office and the Census Bureau, which lack access to the complete SOI microdata records, employ the March CPS as the basis for their tax models, imputing or statistically matching arc return data from the more limited publicuse version of the SOI onto the CPS. (The Census Bureau's tax model is not used to simulate alternative tax policies but to estimate after-tax income from the CPS.)
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... This chapter compares the March CPS and SIPP on a number of dimensions of data quality in an effort to assess their relative strengths and weaknesses for use as microsimulation modeling databases, principally for income support programs. The chapter first specifies the data requirements of programs such as AFDC and food stamps and briefly describes the design of the two surveys.
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  • urban institute
  • food stamps
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  • modeling income
  • decennial census

  • stamp program
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  • participation function
  • care expenses
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  • cps data
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  • child care
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  • income tax
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